From: 'Mash <mashdot@toshine.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-agenda-files defvar directory "evaluation" ?
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:00:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130610150033.159378x40k6rltkw@webmail.tuffmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nd6ksf5.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org>
Thanks,
I did use a comma to evaluate the variable but without the backtick
which I believed caused that "old style backticks" warning.
Quoting Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>:
> 'Mash <mashdot@toshine.net> writes:
>
>> Resolved this via stackoverflow.
>>
>> (setq org-agenda-files (list org-dir))
>>
>
> Equivalently
>
> (setq org-agenda-files `(,org-dir))
>
> That's a backquote (on a US keyboard, it's the key to the left of the
> 1 key in the top row), not a normal quote. See
>
> (info "(elisp) Backquote")
>
> The (list org-dir) form is quite readable here, but when things get
> more complicated, the backquote form tends to be more readable than
> manufacturing list structure by hand.
>
>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17020119/org-mode-org-agenda-files-defvar-directory-evaluation/17021834
>>
>> Quoting 'Mash <mashdot@toshine.net>:
>>
>
>>> ...
>>> But how would I do this with the variable?
>>>
>>> (setq org-agenda-files '(org-dir))
>>> (setq org-agenda-files '(,(org-dir))
>>>
>
> --
> Nick
>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-10 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-07 16:16 org-agenda-files defvar directory "evaluation" ? 'Mash
2013-06-10 11:29 ` 'Mash
2013-06-10 13:26 ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-10 14:00 ` 'Mash [this message]
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