From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: niels giesen <niels.giesen@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default directory in org-agenda-mode
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:12:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23847.1294859539@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from niels giesen <niels.giesen@gmail.com> of "Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:29:39 +0100." <8739oy3rho.fsf@gmail.com>
niels giesen <niels.giesen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like `default-directory' in `org-agenda-mode' to be the
> value of `org-directory'. This is because I tend to start my
> working day by opening the Agenda view, and then decide to open
> some org file (which I all have inside `org-directory' and that
> may or may not have items present in the specific Agenda view).
>
> To this end I tried doing the following:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (add-to-list
> 'default-directory-alist
> `(org-agenda-mode
> ,org-directory))
> #+end_src
>
> But this does not work. Any ideas?
>
AFAIK, there is no variable default-directory-alist - at least, my
emacs does not know anything about it.
What you want is to change the default directory of the agenda buffer.
When the agenda buffer is created, org-agenda-mode is called to set
the major mode. Most major modes (including org-agenda-mode) define
hooks: a hook is a variable that holds a list of functions. The mode
calls each function in the hook when it is enabled. So the trick
is to add a function to the appropriate hook. Typically something
like this will suffice:
(add-hook 'org-agenda-mode-hook (function (lambda () (setq default-directory org-directory))))
The only problem is where to add this line of code: if you add it to .emacs
or some other initialization file, you might get an error because
org-agenda-mode-hook is not defined yet. One way to get out of the
chicken/egg situation is to load org-agenda before you add the function
to the hook. Another way is to eval the above "on demand" when org
agenda is loaded:
(eval-after-load "org-agenda"
(quote
(progn
...
(add-hook 'org-agenda-mode-hook (function (lambda () (setq default-directory org-directory)))))))
(the progn is there in case you have to do more than one thing when
loading the agenda: if you only have one thing, just remove the
ellipsis). This can safely be put into an initialization file like
.emacs.
You should also read the doc for add-hook (C-h f add-hook <RET>) and for
whatever hook variable you are modifying (e.g. C-h v
org-agenda-mode-hook <RET>: there are some fine points in add-hook that
I have not gone into above - otoh, org-agenda-mode-hook is bog-standard.
HTH,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-12 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-12 18:29 Default directory in org-agenda-mode niels giesen
2011-01-12 19:12 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-01-12 19:41 ` Niels Giesen
2011-01-12 19:23 ` Tassilo Horn
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