I guess the OP opens a new emacs instance, which might be loading agenda
files each time on initialization?

If that is the case, emacsclient is probably the solution. or Open files in
a new frame.

John

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On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thursday,  3 Mar 2016 at 01:46, Louis Turk wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I use emacs all day long for many purposes, including programming. I
> > open emacs with org-mode on one desktop, and leave it running
> > continually. I do not want emacs to load the org-agenda files every time
> > I open a source-code file, but rather only when I open a file with the
> > .org extension. How can this be done?
>
> Why would your agenda files get loaded whether you visit an org file or
> any other file?  You must have customised something that opens those
> files as the default behaviour is to open them only if you invoke one of
> the agenda commands.
> --
> : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.91.1, Org release_8.3.4-626-gb62d55
>
>