Closing org buffers after agenda

Closing org buffers after agenda

[John Hendy]

I don't use agenda as often as a lot of folks. When I do, I notice
that all org files in my agenda path end up open. Sometimes this has
caused issues as I've been working on a file and then after agenda I
notice that there's a file.org<2> buffer. I'll go to save one and it
will tell me it's changed on disk and I have a hard time figuring out
which one I should keep!

Is there a way to close the buffers opened by agenda? Does agenda
leave them open for quicker searching for the next time? Or I wondered
if they need to be open buffers to it to look at the contents.


Thanks,
John

Re: Closing org buffers after agenda

[Nick Dokos]

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't use agenda as often as a lot of folks. When I do, I notice
> that all org files in my agenda path end up open. Sometimes this has
> caused issues as I've been working on a file and then after agenda I
> notice that there's a file.org<2> buffer. I'll go to save one and it
> will tell me it's changed on disk and I have a hard time figuring out
> which one I should keep!
> 
> Is there a way to close the buffers opened by agenda? Does agenda
> leave them open for quicker searching for the next time? Or I wondered
> if they need to be open buffers to it to look at the contents.
> 
> 

'x' in the agenda (bound to org-agenda-exit) will do that.

However, I find it easier to go from the agenda to the file, rather than
navigating through the file system: C-c a a <move cursor to entry> TAB gets me
there pretty quickly.

Nick

Re: Closing org buffers after agenda

[John Hendy]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't use agenda as often as a lot of folks. When I do, I notice
>> that all org files in my agenda path end up open. Sometimes this has
>> caused issues as I've been working on a file and then after agenda I
>> notice that there's a file.org<2> buffer. I'll go to save one and it
>> will tell me it's changed on disk and I have a hard time figuring out
>> which one I should keep!
>>
>> Is there a way to close the buffers opened by agenda? Does agenda
>> leave them open for quicker searching for the next time? Or I wondered
>> if they need to be open buffers to it to look at the contents.
>>
>>
>
> 'x' in the agenda (bound to org-agenda-exit) will do that.

Doh! Thanks :)

>
> However, I find it easier to go from the agenda to the file, rather than
> navigating through the file system: C-c a a <move cursor to entry> TAB gets me
> there pretty quickly.
>

As in, if you're editing files linked in the agenda, you'd rather
leave them open and navigate to them from agenda? If so, that makes
sense. I keep nearly everything in one projects.org file but search
other files for reference material (I have an education.org for
classes I've taken at work, devel.org for goal tracking/evaluation
stuff, contacts.org, etc.). I use those other files quite rarely, so I
really only need projects.org open for the most part.


Thanks!
John

> Nick
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