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

[Andrew Forrester]

Allen, thanks for your quick and useful reply!

> [...]  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. [...]

Thanks for the advice.  It's worth it to do this, since trouble-shooting 
is much easier this way.

> > [...]  What am I doing wrong?

Apparently, I needed to set the variables dir-where-you-store-org-files and 
org-agenda-files, as shown here:
http://
stackoverflow.com/questions/18011098/emacs-org-mode-todo-list-missing-items

> [...] (What's ";a"?)  [...]

That is a key binding for the agenda when using evil org mode:
https://github.com/edwtjo/evil-org-mode
I'm following your suggestion and now am not using this for the time being.

-Andrew