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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: loading all agenda files at startup
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 19:17:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx97un5q.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lhunchx8.fsf@gmail.com

Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2014-04-30 10:44 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>>
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>>> I've got a few top-level user commands, related to org, that load at
>>>> startup. Specifically org-agenda and org-ido-switchb are bound to keys
>>>> that are available after emacs starts up. Before Org loads properly,
>>>> however, things like the agenda file list and the list of valid tags and
>>>> TODO keywords are unavailable. That makes it hard to boot emacs and go
>>>> directly into a call to `org-todo-list': the TODO keywords aren't loaded
>>>> yet.
>>>>
>>>> I've looked into this before but couldn't find a single function that
>>>> would "boot" my local data. `org-agenda-files' reads the file list, but
>>>> it doesn't actually parse the files and do all the setup routines.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a single-function entry point that I could put in my init
>>>> files, that would get me where I want to be? ie, in a state as though
>>>> `org-agenda' had already been called, though it hasn't yet?
>>>
>>> I call `org-agenda-list' in my `after-init-hook' but it is not "silent",
>>> that is, it displays the agenda list.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>
>> Right, just calling the agenda directly will certainly solve the issue,
>> and I suppose as a member of the Org faithful I should be booting to the
>> agenda! But it would be nice to get the same effect, but be left in
>> *scratch*...
>
> Maybe hacking around it with something like the following in
> 'org-agenda-after-show-hook' or some similar hook?
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun my-switch-to-sratch ()
>   (switch-to-buffer "*scratch*")
>   (delete-other-windows))
> #+end_src
>
> HTH,

Yup, that's worth considering. I guess I was just hoping to get at the
"plumbing" a little more directly. But yes, on balance this is probably
a better approach.

Thanks,
Eric

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-03 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-30  8:18 loading all agenda files at startup Eric Abrahamsen
2014-04-30  8:23 ` Daimrod
2014-04-30  8:44   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-04-30  8:58     ` Alexander Baier
2014-04-30  9:11       ` Alexander Baier
2014-05-03 11:17       ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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