evil, agenda, list of all todo items (basic question)

Tue Dec 31 01:34:01 CET 2013

> Background: I'm new to Emacs, Vim, and Org Mode, but I decided I wanted Vim
> keystrokes and Org Mode for organization.  So it looks like my best options
> are Evil or VimOrganizer.  I'm trying Evil right now, but I'm having
> trouble figuring out how to do basic things.

First, just to offer some personal experience on using vim key bindings in
Emacs.  I have found that it is best to use Evil for the basic set of vim key
bindings and vim feature emulation, and let Emacs take care of the rest.  Try
not to go too crazy rebinding commands until you've at least spent a month or
so familiarizing yourself with the defaults.  It might seem like a duplication
of effort learning both Vim AND Emacs keybindings, but 1) since everything else
in Emacs follows Emacs's key binding paradigms (e.g., n/p to move up/down, g to
refresh, k to kill, etc.), you'll save yourself a lot of time and effort
familiarizing yourself with them and 2) the best parts of Vim key bindings are
the basic text editing commands--which Evil provides by default anyway--and are
few enough to learn in a few hours, easily.

> Question: (background below) I'm using Evil in Emacs Org Mode, and I'm
> having trouble in trying to do something simple in the agenda.  I type ";a"
> to enter the agenda, then I type "t" to filter my file into just the
> non-finished todo items, but it doesn't filter and instead gives me some
> kind of status buffer or something that I can't figure out (see below).
>  I've tried typing various things that it seems to be suggesting, including
> ("N", "r", "N r"), but it still doesn't do the trick.  I've also done some
> googling and manual searching, without success yet.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> What I see when I try to filter my file to see a list of non-finished todo
> items:
> ==================================================
> * DONE text
> * PROJ A title for a multi-step item.         :@computer:...
> * TODO Say hello.
> * NEXT Buy socks.
> * Not a todo item.
> 
> -UU-:----F1  test.org       All L1    <N>   (Org Ind EvilOrg)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Global list of TODO items of type: ALL
> Available with `N r': (0)[ALL]
> ==================================================

This sounds like either you rebound something incorrectly (What's ";a"?) or a
bug in Org mode (or a configuration error on your part).  Your best bet would
be to ask on the org mode mailing lists.