org-agenda-files

org-agenda-files

[Paul Jewell]

Good evening!

I am starting to use a more complex setup for org-mode, having left it
alone for more than a year. The setup I am using is documented here:
http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

I am having a problem with setting up the org-agenda-files variable in
the startup code:

In my .emacs:

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(setq org-user-agenda-files ( quote ("~/git/org"
                                     "~/git/org/test")))

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/lisp"))
(load "org-mode")

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In the org-mode.el file from the above site:

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;; The following setting is different from the document so that you
;; can override the document org-agenda-files by setting your
;; org-agenda-files in the variable org-user-agenda-files
;;
(if (boundp 'org-user-agenda-files)
    (setq org-agenda-files org-user-agenda-files)
  (setq org-agenda-files (quote ("~/git/org"
                               "~/git/org/client1"
                               "~/git/client2"))))

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So by setting org-user-agenda-files in my .emacs before loading
org-mode.el (which I have in my ~/.emacs.d/lisp directory), I should be
setting org-agenda-files to ("~/git/org" "~/git/org/test").

Results of executing the following code (in this order) in the scratch
buffer:
(boundp 'org-user-agenda-files)   =>  t
org-user-agenda-files             =>  ("~/git/org" "~/git/org/test")
(boundp 'org-agenda-files)        =>  t
org-agenda-files                  =>  nil
(setq org-agenda-files org-user-agenda-files) => ("~/git/org"
"~/git/org/test")
org-agenda-files                              => ("~/git/org"
"~/git/org/test")

So I don't understand why the commands in .emacs and org-mode.el aren't
giving me the expected results. Have I missed something with my limited
knowledge of lisp?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

Re: org-agenda-files

[Eric S Fraga]

On Tuesday,  6 Oct 2015 at 21:34, Paul Jewell wrote:

[...]

> So by setting org-user-agenda-files in my .emacs before loading
> org-mode.el (which I have in my ~/.emacs.d/lisp directory), I should be
> setting org-agenda-files to ("~/git/org" "~/git/org/test").

When do you load org itself?

Other than variables set by customize, I load org and then setq
variables.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.2-161-gd2ac25

Re: org-agenda-files

[Paul Jewell]

On 08/10/15 20:42, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Tuesday,  6 Oct 2015 at 21:34, Paul Jewell wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> So by setting org-user-agenda-files in my .emacs before loading
>> org-mode.el (which I have in my ~/.emacs.d/lisp directory), I should be
>> setting org-agenda-files to ("~/git/org" "~/git/org/test").
> 
> When do you load org itself?
> 
> Other than variables set by customize, I load org and then setq
> variables.
> 

The problem was customize. I set the org-user-agenda-files in .emacs,
then load the org-mode.el. This loads org mode at te top of the file,
then sets org-agenda-files to org-user-agenda-files.

The bit I missed was that org-agenda-files were set in customize to nil,
and this change was happening after the assignment. Once I cleared this,
everything works as planned.

Thanks for coming back to me!

Re: org-agenda-files

[Eric S Fraga]

On Thursday,  8 Oct 2015 at 22:36, Paul Jewell wrote:

[...]

> The bit I missed was that org-agenda-files were set in customize to nil,
> and this change was happening after the assignment. Once I cleared this,
> everything works as planned.
>
> Thanks for coming back to me!

Glad you figured it out.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.2-161-gd2ac25