Re: Re: ignoring non-existent agenda files

Re: Re: ignoring non-existent agenda files

[Daniel Clemente]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:44 AM, andrea Crotti
<andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote:
> But why did you get this error?
> Maybe you were setting manually all the agenda files?

  Yes, I set some agenda files by hand because some live in very
different directories. Some are used only eventually and therefore I
don't have them at each computer; my .emacs is however the same.

  I used a code to check all my agenda files lists in order to remove
the files which don't exist in the current computer.

Re: Ignoring non-existent agenda files

[Clifford Caoile]

Hello emacs-orgmode mailing list:

I too would like the ability for org-mode to ignore (silently)
non-existent agenda files. This has been discussed before on the
mailing list [1].

Basically my use case is with Emacs on Windows. I have one Org Agenda
file on removable storage (USB memory), which I want to use from
multiple computers, so sometimes that file is not available. I tried
modifying the org-mode elisp files as shown below. When the
interactive prompt "non-existent file <filename>.. [R]emove from list
or [A]bort?" is shown, I press the "c" key to continue.

---gitk output---
[author/committer is me, but info is redacted]
Parent: 6f3026edf161ae2d721f4ac04ed50fdebb16353d (Release 6.35g)

    Continuing loading when agenda org files do not exist temporarily (press c)

--------------------------------- lisp/org.el ---------------------------------
index c89c5ac..89c5d88 100644
@@ -14896,6 +14896,8 @@ Optional argument FILE means use this file
instead of the current."
        ((equal r ?r)
 	(org-remove-file file)
 	(throw 'nextfile t))
+       ((equal r ?c)
+	(throw 'nextfile t))
        (t (error "Abort"))))))

 (defun org-get-agenda-file-buffer (file)
---gitk output end---

Unfortunately, the above doesn't work correctly. I have to press "c"
multiple times in order to "c"ontinue.

I think the workaround suggested by Carsten Dominik [1], which is to
delete non-existent files from the org-agenda-files variable once,
could work for me if I change it to check the existence of the files
every time. Do you think this can be implemented as an elisp defadvice
on org-agenda<f>? Or is there some better way?

References:
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17408

Best regards and TIA,
Clifford Caoile

Re: Re: Ignoring non-existent agenda files

[Carsten Dominik]

On May 24, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Clifford Caoile wrote:

> Hello emacs-orgmode mailing list:
>
> I too would like the ability for org-mode to ignore (silently)
> non-existent agenda files. This has been discussed before on the
> mailing list [1].

And it has been implemented since then:

(setq org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files t)

>
> Basically my use case is with Emacs on Windows. I have one Org Agenda
> file on removable storage (USB memory), which I want to use from
> multiple computers, so sometimes that file is not available. I tried
> modifying the org-mode elisp files as shown below. When the
> interactive prompt "non-existent file <filename>.. [R]emove from list
> or [A]bort?" is shown, I press the "c" key to continue.
>
> ---gitk output---
> [author/committer is me, but info is redacted]
> Parent: 6f3026edf161ae2d721f4ac04ed50fdebb16353d (Release 6.35g)
>
>    Continuing loading when agenda org files do not exist temporarily  
> (press c)
>
> --------------------------------- lisp/org.el  
> ---------------------------------
> index c89c5ac..89c5d88 100644
> @@ -14896,6 +14896,8 @@ Optional argument FILE means use this file
> instead of the current."
>        ((equal r ?r)
> 	(org-remove-file file)
> 	(throw 'nextfile t))
> +       ((equal r ?c)
> +	(throw 'nextfile t))
>        (t (error "Abort"))))))
>
> (defun org-get-agenda-file-buffer (file)
> ---gitk output end---
>
> Unfortunately, the above doesn't work correctly. I have to press "c"
> multiple times in order to "c"ontinue.

The reason why you have to press "c" several times is because you are  
making an agenda with several days, or several blocks.

HTH

- Carsten

Re: Re: Ignoring non-existent agenda files

[Clifford Caoile]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 19:52, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On May 24, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Clifford Caoile wrote:
>
>> Hello emacs-orgmode mailing list:
>>
>> I too would like the ability for org-mode to ignore (silently)
>> non-existent agenda files. This has been discussed before on the
>> mailing list [1].
>
> And it has been implemented since then:
>
> (setq org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files t)

!Wow!
Looks like it's in the version (6.35g) I am already using. :-/ :-)
And I was going to share my other defadvice that I crafted yesterday. Ha ha.

Thank you very much,
Clifford Caoile