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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Noorul Islam <noorul@noorul.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] question about org-agenda-files
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 08:18:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70C0FD6B-09A8-463E-AC6E-86CFC2DC369F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikjtzB+Cip_F1VOj1CustsUtCTcS5gNtKqjZ12m@mail.gmail.com>


On Aug 6, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Noorul Islam wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Bastien wrote:
>
> Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Why is it that if org-agenda-files is a list the list should have
> absolute file names whereas when it (points to) a single file
> containing the names those names are allowed to be relative to
> org-directory?
>
> I guess this is a small historical contingency.  We might indeed allow
> relative filenames when `org-agenda-files' is a list.
>
> I agree and would welcome a patch for this.
>
>
> Changing this behavior is going to be a significant one as far as  
> the current users are concerned. I started working towards a patch  
> for this and now I am thinking how not to break existing  
> functionality. Or should we force everyone to be relative to org- 
> directory?


Hmm, indeed, it might not be as simple, because there are a number of  
commands
that manipulate these files.

Let's not do this for now - it needs a careful look.

- Carsten

>
> Here is the simple patch which straight away expands the file names  
> with org-directory.
>
> * org.el:
>   + org-expand-file-list ()
>      Expand the list of agenda files in "org-agenda-files" with "org- 
> directory" as base directory.
>   + org-agenda-files ()
>      Call org-expand-file-list() if "org-agenda-files" is a list.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Noorul
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
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- Carsten

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-07  6:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-01 17:50 question about org-agenda-files Rustom Mody
2010-08-06  8:30 ` Bastien
2010-08-06 10:42   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-06 14:14     ` [PATCH] " Noorul Islam
2010-08-07  6:18       ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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