From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
"W.Bentley MacLeod" <bentley.macleod@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: FAQ incorrect
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:21:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9C4DC40D-F4C9-496E-B66F-91FAA5DCB41C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4601.1256655409@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org>
On Oct 27, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> W.Bentley MacLeod <bentley.macleod@columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>> FAQ on how to include all org files in a directory is incorrect
>> (view 85).
>> Correct code is:
>> (setq org-agenda-files (file-expand-wildcards "~/org-files/*.org"))
>>
>
> If you are talking about this entry:
>
> How can include all org files in a directory in my agenda?
>
> You can simply set the value of org-agenda-files to a directory
> rather than a list of files:
>
> (setq org-agenda-files "~/my/special/path/org/")
Does that really work? I believe it should be
(setq org-agenda-files '("~/my/special/path/org/"))
i.e. each member of this list can be a file or a
directory. If it is a directory, the org files in
it will be used.
- Carsten
>
> it is correct as it stands: unless you are using a really ancient
> version, org figures out that it's a directory and sets org-agenda-
> files
> to the contents of the directory (filtered by org-agenda-file-regexp,
> which by default matches filenames ending in ".org").
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
>
>
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- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-27 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-27 13:10 FAQ incorrect W.Bentley MacLeod
2009-10-27 14:50 ` Benjamin Andresen
2009-10-27 15:03 ` W.Bentley MacLeod
2009-10-27 15:05 ` W.Bentley MacLeod
2009-10-27 14:56 ` Nick Dokos
2009-10-27 15:21 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-10-27 15:29 ` Nick Dokos
2009-10-27 17:02 ` Matt Lundin
2009-10-27 15:00 ` Matt Lundin
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