From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Michael McAndrew <michaelmcandrew@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex to find *.org in subdirectories for agenda
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:40:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k54bp9tm.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b58d51b0905201657k5bd1916cpbed12feccb4ee459@mail.gmail.com> (Michael McAndrew's message of "Thu\, 21 May 2009 00\:57\:13 +0100")
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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2009-05-20 23:57 regex to find *.org in subdirectories for agenda Michael McAndrew
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