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Subject: Re: org-agenda-files defvar directory "evaluation" ?
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Thanks,

I did use a comma to evaluate the variable but without the backtick =20
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-def=
var-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
>
>
>