On Friday, 19 Sep 2014 at 10:41, hymie! wrote: > In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero, > Thorsten Jolitz , who said: >> >>Read again! => > > >>| If the value of the variable is not a list but a single file name, >>| then ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > That's what I did. > > (setq org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org/agenda.file.list"))) which sets the variable to a list of one string, which is *not* what you want. Try (setq org-agenda-files "~/org/agenda.file.list") instead. A single file name versus a list with a single file name are very different constructs! -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.50.1, Org release_8.3beta-360-ge17ee8