Hello, That is exactly what happened. I reread the helper and now it is obvious that "Root" is among the parents also. I didn't realized that at the time.
Thanks Kyle and Adrian for the clarification. Lem On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 4:29 PM Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Lem Ming <ramboman...@gmail.com> writes: > > > In the agenda list `org-agenda-list` buffer, when I do > > `org-agenda-filter-by-top-headline` when the point is over a line with a > > headline, nothing is filtered. > > > > I've never used org-agenda-filter-by-top-headline, but taking a quick > look at it and its helper, org-find-top-headline, the intention seems to > be to find the level-one parent of the current heading. So, in your > example, > > > * Root > > ** TODO task 2 > > :tag_2: > > DEADLINE: <2018-09-14 Fri 12:00:00> > > :PROPERTIES: > > :ADD_TIME: <2018-09-07 Fri 23:47:00> > > :END: > > *** TODO task 2.1 > > DEADLINE: <2018-09-14 Fri 11:00:00> > > :PROPERTIES: > > :ADD_TIME: <2018-09-07 Fri 23:47:00> > > :END: > [...] > > ** TODO task 7 > > DEADLINE: <2018-09-14 Fri 12:00:00> SCHEDULED: <2018-09-12 Wed > 10:00:00> > > ... it'd find "Root" if point were on any of the tasks. If I'm reading > your report correctly, you're assuming that with point on the "task 2", > it'd take *that* as the top-level heading and filter to all the tasks > under it (task 2.1, etc). Instead, it finds "Root" and filters to > everything thing under that, which---in your example file---is the same > thing, so you don't see any change. > > -- > Kyle >
