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From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Handling org-file agenda dependenncies?
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To: Eraldo Helal <admin@eraldo.at>
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Hi Eraldo,

Eraldo Helal <admin@eraldo.at> writes:

> Mike Newman <mike <at> newmanfamily.me.uk> writes:
>  
>> When you use the standard commands to add/removes files from the
>> agenda, it will write a definition for the variable org-agenda-files to
>> the custom section of your .emacs file.
>
> That would still mean removing every org-file in the tree manually
> when wanting to make a project "inactive".
>
>> If you want to deal with trees of files, you might be better off
>> removing the variable from the custom section, defining it
>> yourself and updating it manually.
>
> The questions here is... How could one define it?

I think you could set something like the following in your .emacs file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(load-library "find-lisp")
(setq org-agenda-files (append (find-lisp-find-files "~/directory1" "\.org$")
			       (find-lisp-find-files "~/directory2" "\.org$")         
                               (find-lisp-find-files "~/directory3" "\.org$")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This will search the directories above recursively for org files.
Whenever you want to remove a project from your agenda, simply delete
the appropriate line and evaluate the expression. I'd imagine someone
else can think of a way to do this more economically, though.

Best,
Matt