automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

[Rainer Stengele]

I sometimes work in an org-file that I currently do not have included in org-agenda-files.

Having the cursor for example on a timestamp in that file and pressing TAB I will see the agenda of
that day.

What happens is that the agenda opens and I do not see my todo since the file is not in
org-agenda-files. This seems unintuitive to me. I will then manually add the current file to
org-agenda-files.

Maybe there could be a variable allowing to automatically include the current org file in
org-agenda-files when agenda view is activated from a on-included file?

What do you think?


Rainer

Re: automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

[Bastien]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:

> Maybe there could be a variable allowing to automatically include the
> current org file in org-agenda-files when agenda view is activated from
> a on-included file?
>
> What do you think?

I think it would be very useful.

Depending on a new custom variable:

- always include the file automatically
- include the file if [condition: interactive prompt/regexp/...]
- don't include the file

-- 
Bastien

Re: automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 20, 2007, at 15:50, Bastien wrote:

> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
>
>> Maybe there could be a variable allowing to automatically include the
>> current org file in org-agenda-files when agenda view is activated 
>> from
>> a on-included file?
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> I think it would be very useful.
>
> Depending on a new custom variable:
>
> - always include the file automatically
> - include the file if [condition: interactive prompt/regexp/...]
> - don't include the file


Are (both of) you thinking about *permanently* adding it to the agenda 
files, or only temporarily for the current agenda command?

- Carsten

Re: automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

[Bastien]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

>> Depending on a new custom variable:
>>
>> - always include the file automatically
>> - include the file if [condition: interactive prompt/regexp/...]
>> - don't include the file
>
>
> Are (both of) you thinking about *permanently* adding it to the agenda
> files, or only temporarily for the current agenda command?

I was thinking of *permanently* adding them.

-- 
Bastien

Re: automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

[Rainer Stengele]

Bastien schrieb:
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
> 
>>> Depending on a new custom variable:
>>>
>>> - always include the file automatically
>>> - include the file if [condition: interactive prompt/regexp/...]
>>> - don't include the file
>>
>> Are (both of) you thinking about *permanently* adding it to the agenda
>> files, or only temporarily for the current agenda command?
> 
> I was thinking of *permanently* adding them.
> 

Well I would rather add it temporarily.
But - maybe a config variable would decide?

Rainer

Re: Re: automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:39, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> Bastien schrieb:
>> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>>
>>>> Depending on a new custom variable:
>>>>
>>>> - always include the file automatically
>>>> - include the file if [condition: interactive prompt/regexp/...]
>>>> - don't include the file
>>>
>>> Are (both of) you thinking about *permanently* adding it to the 
>>> agenda
>>> files, or only temporarily for the current agenda command?
>>
>> I was thinking of *permanently* adding them.
>>
>
> Well I would rather add it temporarily.

Also for me this would be the only reasonable choice.  I have so many 
files on
org-mode, most of them are actually not in the agenda.  It seems to me 
that
adding a file to the list of agenda files should be a conscious 
decision.

- Carsten

Re: automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

[Xavier Maillard]

Hi,

   Are (both of) you thinking about *permanently* adding it to the agenda 
   files, or only temporarily for the current agenda command?

I would likely want this *temporarily*.

	Xavier
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Re: automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

[Bastien]

Hi Xavier!

Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

>    Are (both of) you thinking about *permanently* adding it to the agenda 
>    files, or only temporarily for the current agenda command?
>
> I would likely want this *temporarily*.

Carsten already answered this here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/3351

-- 
Bastien

Re: automatically (?) including an org-file in org-agenda-files ...

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 20, 2007, at 5:14, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> I sometimes work in an org-file that I currently do not have included 
> in org-agenda-files.
>
> Having the cursor for example on a timestamp in that file and pressing 
> TAB I will see the agenda of
> that day.
>
> What happens is that the agenda opens and I do not see my todo since 
> the file is not in
> org-agenda-files. This seems unintuitive to me. I will then manually 
> add the current file to
> org-agenda-files.
>
> Maybe there could be a variable allowing to automatically include the 
> current org file in
> org-agenda-files when agenda view is activated from a on-included file?
>
> What do you think?

After some thinking, it seems to me that this is not the right thing to 
do.
As I said earlier in the thread, adding a file should be something
you explicitly request.

It you want to temporarily look at the agenda entry a file would 
produce,
you can always create an agenda restricted to the current buffer.  That
buffer does not have to be a member of org-agenda-files.

E.g.

C-c a 1 a

- Carsten