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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: question about org-agenda-files
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:42:27 +0200
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On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Bastien wrote:

> Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Why is it that if org-agenda-files is a list the list should have
>> absolute file names whereas when it (points to) a single file
>> containing the names those names are allowed to be relative to
>> org-directory?
>
> I guess this is a small historical contingency.  We might indeed allow
> relative filenames when `org-agenda-files' is a list.

I agree and would welcome a patch for this.

- Carsten