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* regex to find *.org in subdirectories for agenda
@ 2009-05-20 23:57 Michael McAndrew
  2009-05-21  0:40 ` Bernt Hansen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael McAndrew @ 2009-05-20 23:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


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Hi there,

I'm just getting started with org mode after having watched the google tech
talk.  from my experiences so far, i think it is the tool i have been
waiting for a long time!

i've have transferred by entire huge nested todo list (which i was
previously managing in a local mediawiki) and that has been great.  but am
now excited about being able to split up and recompile all my todos
automatically - so i can keep everything contextually organised.

I have my projects organised in directories and sub directories under two
projects directories, "~/work" and "~/home".  i want to keep *.org lists in
each of these directories and have them automatically picked up by orgmode
when i hit C-ca.  so i might have  ~/work/bbc/todo.org and ~/home/garden/
todo.org

I found this post
http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg08945.html

so i presume that i need to use a regular expression in find-lisp-find-files
to create this list of files to feed to some variable like
org-agenda-files...

and have tried a million regex inspired expressions in my emacs config like:

(load-library "find-lisp")
(set org-agenda files (find-lisp-find-files "~" (rx seq(string-start (or
"work" "home") ".org" string-end))))

but it isn't working.

i'm kind of out of my depth with emacs (aquamacs actually - only have a few
days experience) and have never got to grips with regex! but also loving it
and would be grateful if someone could pull me out of this hole :)

Thanks,
Michael

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• * Re: regex to find *.org in subdirectories for agenda
    2009-05-20 23:57 regex to find *.org in subdirectories for agenda Michael McAndrew
  @ 2009-05-21  0:40 ` Bernt Hansen
    2009-05-21  1:38   ` Michael McAndrew
    0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
  From: Bernt Hansen @ 2009-05-21  0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: Michael McAndrew; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
  
  Michael McAndrew <michaelmcandrew@gmail.com> writes:
  
  > Hi there,
  >
  
  Hi Michael!
  
  > I'm just getting started with org mode after having watched the google
  > tech talk.  from my experiences so far, i think it is the tool i have
  > been waiting for a long time!
  >
  > i've have transferred by entire huge nested todo list (which i was
  > previously managing in a local mediawiki) and that has been great. 
  > but am now excited about being able to split up and recompile all my
  > todos automatically - so i can keep everything contextually organised.
  >
  > I have my projects organised in directories and sub directories under
  > two projects directories, "~/work" and "~/home".  i want to keep *.org
  > lists in each of these directories and have them automatically picked
  > up by orgmode when i hit C-ca.  so i might have  ~/work/bbc/todo.org
  > and ~/home/garden/todo.org
  
  I don't use org-mode like this myself but just did a quick minimal emacs
  test and it seems to work fine.   You can set org-agenda-files to the
  directories you want to include in the agenda and all files matching the
  org-agenda-file-regexp will be included in the agenda.
  
  >
  > I found this post
  > http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg08945.html
  >
  > so i presume that i need to use a regular expression in
  > find-lisp-find-files to create this list of files to feed to some
  > variable like org-agenda-files...
  >
  > and have tried a million regex inspired expressions in my emacs config
  > like:
  >
  > (load-library "find-lisp")
  > (set org-agenda files (find-lisp-find-files "~" (rx seq(string-start (or "work" "home") ".org" string-end))))
                   ^
                   |
                 no space here.  It should be org-agenda-files
  
  >
  > but it isn't working.
  >
  > i'm kind of out of my depth with emacs (aquamacs actually - only have
  > a few days experience) and have never got to grips with regex! but
  > also loving it and would be grateful if someone could pull me out of
  > this hole :)
  
  Here's my test setup -- I just added the directories to org-agenda-files:
  
  I just created files in /tmp/play/ /tmp/work/ and /tmp/foo and added
  some tasks to some of these just to see if they show up in the agenda
  (and they did).
  
  ,----[ My test directory layout ]
  | bernt@gollum:~/git/org-mode$ tree /tmp/play /tmp/work /tmp/foo
  | /tmp/play
  | |-- a.org
  | |-- b.org
  | |-- c.org
  | |-- d.org
  | `-- e.org
  | /tmp/work
  | |-- w-g.org
  | |-- w-h.org
  | |-- w-i.org
  | |-- w-j.org
  | `-- w-l.org
  | /tmp/foo
  | |-- foo-r.org
  | |-- foo-s.org
  | `-- foo-t.org
  | 
  | 0 directories, 13 files
  `----
  
  ,----[ /tmp/minimal.emacs ]
  | (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/git/org-mode/lisp"))
  | (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode))
  | (require 'org-install)
  | 
  | (global-font-lock-mode t)
  | (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
  | (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
  | (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
  | 
  | (setq org-agenda-files (list "/tmp/work" "/tmp/play" "/tmp/foo"))
  `----
  
  ,----[ /tmp/work/w-l.org ]
  | #+STARTUP:
  | * TODO Something for work
  |   SCHEDULED: <2009-05-19 Tue>
  `----
  
  ,----[ /tmp/foo/foo-s.org ]
  | * Meeting
  |   DEADLINE: <2009-05-22 Fri 12:00>
  `----
  
  ,----[ /tmp/play/c.org ]
  | #+STARTUP:
  | * TODO Play with this
  |   SCHEDULED: <2009-05-21 Thu 15:00>
  `----
  
  Starting emacs with:
  
  emacs -q -l /tmp/minimal.emacs
  
  and hitting C-c a a shows the following agenda
  
  ,----[ /tmp/agenda.txt ]
  | Week-agenda (W21):
  | Monday     18 May 2009 W21
  | Tuesday    19 May 2009
  |   w-l:        Scheduled:  TODO Something for work
  | Wednesday  20 May 2009
  |   w-l:        Sched. 2x:  TODO Something for work
  |   foo-s:      In   2 d.:  Meeting
  | Thursday   21 May 2009
  |   c:          15:00...... Scheduled:  TODO Play with this
  | Friday     22 May 2009
  |   foo-s:      12:00...... Deadline:   Meeting
  | Saturday   23 May 2009
  | Sunday     24 May 2009
  `----
  
  HTH,
  Bernt
  
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• • * Re: regex to find *.org in subdirectories for agenda
      2009-05-21  0:40 ` Bernt Hansen
    @ 2009-05-21  1:38   ` Michael McAndrew
      0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
    From: Michael McAndrew @ 2009-05-21  1:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: Bernt Hansen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
    
    
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    yes it was.  thanks, bernt, that was fantastic and helped me out of a big
    hole (that i dug for myself :)
    
    I decided to build a little hill to stand on next to the hole by adding the
    following two lines
    
    (setq org-agenda-files (find-lisp-find-files "~/Documents/Projects/Current"
    (rx (seq ".org" string-end))))
    (add-to-list 'org-agenda-files "~/Documents")
    
    which dynamically fills my todo with all files from any subdirectory in
    projects and then adds todo files from my Documents directory and I can add
    other directories when the I feel like it.  I guess I could try and rewrite
    that as one big regex, but life is short.
    
    thanks again!
    
    
    
    
    
    2009/5/21 Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
    
    > Michael McAndrew <michaelmcandrew@gmail.com> writes:
    >
    > > Hi there,
    > >
    >
    > Hi Michael!
    >
    > > I'm just getting started with org mode after having watched the google
    > > tech talk.  from my experiences so far, i think it is the tool i have
    > > been waiting for a long time!
    > >
    > > i've have transferred by entire huge nested todo list (which i was
    > > previously managing in a local mediawiki) and that has been great.
    > > but am now excited about being able to split up and recompile all my
    > > todos automatically - so i can keep everything contextually organised.
    > >
    > > I have my projects organised in directories and sub directories under
    > > two projects directories, "~/work" and "~/home".  i want to keep *.org
    > > lists in each of these directories and have them automatically picked
    > > up by orgmode when i hit C-ca.  so i might have  ~/work/bbc/todo.org
    > > and ~/home/garden/todo.org
    >
    > I don't use org-mode like this myself but just did a quick minimal emacs
    > test and it seems to work fine.   You can set org-agenda-files to the
    > directories you want to include in the agenda and all files matching the
    > org-agenda-file-regexp will be included in the agenda.
    >
    > >
    > > I found this post
    > > http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg08945.html
    > >
    > > so i presume that i need to use a regular expression in
    > > find-lisp-find-files to create this list of files to feed to some
    > > variable like org-agenda-files...
    > >
    > > and have tried a million regex inspired expressions in my emacs config
    > > like:
    > >
    > > (load-library "find-lisp")
    > > (set org-agenda files (find-lisp-find-files "~" (rx seq(string-start (or
    > "work" "home") ".org" string-end))))
    >                  ^
    >                 |
    >               no space here.  It should be org-agenda-files
    >
    > >
    > > but it isn't working.
    > >
    > > i'm kind of out of my depth with emacs (aquamacs actually - only have
    > > a few days experience) and have never got to grips with regex! but
    > > also loving it and would be grateful if someone could pull me out of
    > > this hole :)
    >
    > Here's my test setup -- I just added the directories to org-agenda-files:
    >
    > I just created files in /tmp/play/ /tmp/work/ and /tmp/foo and added
    > some tasks to some of these just to see if they show up in the agenda
    > (and they did).
    >
    > ,----[ My test directory layout ]
    > | bernt@gollum:~/git/org-mode$ tree /tmp/play /tmp/work /tmp/foo
    > | /tmp/play
    > | |-- a.org
    > | |-- b.org
    > | |-- c.org
    > | |-- d.org
    > | `-- e.org
    > | /tmp/work
    > | |-- w-g.org
    > | |-- w-h.org
    > | |-- w-i.org
    > | |-- w-j.org
    > | `-- w-l.org
    > | /tmp/foo
    > | |-- foo-r.org
    > | |-- foo-s.org
    > | `-- foo-t.org
    > |
    > | 0 directories, 13 files
    > `----
    >
    > ,----[ /tmp/minimal.emacs ]
    > | (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/git/org-mode/lisp"))
    > | (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" .
    > org-mode))
    > | (require 'org-install)
    > |
    > | (global-font-lock-mode t)
    > | (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
    > | (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
    > | (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
    > |
    > | (setq org-agenda-files (list "/tmp/work" "/tmp/play" "/tmp/foo"))
    > `----
    >
    > ,----[ /tmp/work/w-l.org ]
    > | #+STARTUP:
    > | * TODO Something for work
    > |   SCHEDULED: <2009-05-19 Tue>
    > `----
    >
    > ,----[ /tmp/foo/foo-s.org ]
    > | * Meeting
    > |   DEADLINE: <2009-05-22 Fri 12:00>
    > `----
    >
    > ,----[ /tmp/play/c.org ]
    > | #+STARTUP:
    > | * TODO Play with this
    > |   SCHEDULED: <2009-05-21 Thu 15:00>
    > `----
    >
    > Starting emacs with:
    >
    > emacs -q -l /tmp/minimal.emacs
    >
    > and hitting C-c a a shows the following agenda
    >
    > ,----[ /tmp/agenda.txt ]
    > | Week-agenda (W21):
    > | Monday     18 May 2009 W21
    > | Tuesday    19 May 2009
    > |   w-l:        Scheduled:  TODO Something for work
    > | Wednesday  20 May 2009
    > |   w-l:        Sched. 2x:  TODO Something for work
    > |   foo-s:      In   2 d.:  Meeting
    > | Thursday   21 May 2009
    > |   c:          15:00...... Scheduled:  TODO Play with this
    > | Friday     22 May 2009
    > |   foo-s:      12:00...... Deadline:   Meeting
    > | Saturday   23 May 2009
    > | Sunday     24 May 2009
    > `----
    >
    > HTH,
    > Bernt
    >
    
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