On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:

> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Nathan,
> >
> >     Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >     > I'm using org-agenda-diary-file.
> >     >
> >     > When I run agenda-mode with the attached configuration,
> >     > I see the same diary entry under each day.
> >     >
> >     > Here's what my agenda shows.  Notice that the entry
> >     > from Dec. 08 shows up on Dec. 14's and Dec. 15's agenda.
> >     > Also, "2009" and "2009-12-December" headers
> >     > repeated under each day.
> >     >
> >     > Monday     14 December 2009 W51
> >     >   Diary:      2009
> >     >   Diary:      2009-12 December
> >     >   Diary:      * 2009-12-08 Tuesday
> >     >   Diary:      ** Something else.
> >     >   Diary:      <2009-12-08 Tue>
> >     > Tuesday    15 December 2009
> >     >   Diary:      2009
> >     >   Diary:      2009-12 December
> >     >   Diary:      * 2009-12-08 Tuesday
> >     >   Diary:      ** Something else.
> >     >   Diary:      <2009-12-08 Tue>
> >     >
> >     > Here's the contents of my diary file "journal.org"
> >     > * 2009
> >     > ** 2009-12 December
> >     > *** 2009-12-08 Tuesday
> >     > **** Something else.
> >     >       <2009-12-08 Tue>
> >     >
> >     > I've tried to include the bare-minimum in my .emacs file,
> >     > and I can provide it if necessary.  I'm submitting this
> >     > using M-x org-submit-bug-report, so hopefully, all necessary
> >     > info is included.
> >     >
> >
> >     I can't reproduce this. Here's what my agenda looks like using the
> same
> >     source along with the settings you included in your email:
> >
> >     Week-agenda (W50-W51):
> >     Tuesday     8 December 2009
> >      journal:    Something else.
> >     Wednesday   9 December 2009
> >     Thursday   10 December 2009
> >     Friday     11 December 2009
> >     Saturday   12 December 2009
> >     Sunday     13 December 2009
> >     Monday     14 December 2009 W51
> >
> >     Best,
> >     Matt
> >
> > Thanks for the help, guys -- If I set the org-agenda-file to a filename
> that doesn't have the .org extension, then I get the following error:
> >
> > Wront type argument: stringp, nil
> >
> > I turned on debugging, and the error is occurring in
> org-fix-position-after-promote()
> >
> > Here's the stack trace:
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> >   looking-at(nil)
> >   org-fix-position-after-promote()
> >   org-do-demote()
> >   org-datetree-insert-line(2009 12)
> >   org-datetree-find-month-create(2009 12)
> >   org-datetree-find-date-create((12 29 2009))
> >   org-agenda-add-entry-to-org-agenda-diary-file(day "foo" (12 29 2009))
> >   org-agenda-diary-entry-in-org-file()
> >   org-agenda-diary-entry()
> >   call-interactively(org-agenda-diary-entry nil nil)
>
> Your org-agenda-files need to be files in org-mode (normally ending in
> .org).  Your org-agenda-diary-file should also be an org file (your
> journal.org).  BUT the diary-file is a totally different animal.  Mine
> is set to ~/diary which is a zero-length empty file.  I don't use the
> standard Emacs diary at all.  I have org-agenda-include-diary set to nil
> and just use my diary.org file (your journal.org) and my regular org
> files for all of my appointment information.
>
> HTH,
> Bernt
>

Thank you very much.  I finally got it to work, using only this setting:

(setq org-agenda-diary-file "~/Documents/personal/journal.org")

Whenever I press "i" in agenda, org-mode puts date/timestamped entries in
the correct file, using org mode formatting, which is what I want.

Since I don't use the diary-file ~/Documents/journal file, it seems odd to
have to define it, but oh well :-)

Thank you very much -- I will use the org-agenda-diary-file much more now.

--Nate