Re: collect info from org files in agenda when open?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:

> Hi Noorul, org-mod users and developers,
> * Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com> [13. Jul. 2013]:
>> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
>>> I customized my org-agenda-files variable to contain 4 files.
>>> But I wished I could automatically add org files to the agenda
>>> simply by opening them.  Is it possible to automagically add
>>> some files to the agenda iff they are visited or add the contents
>>> of org-mode buffers?
>> 
>> I am not sure whether you already went through contents of this link.
>> 
>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-files.html
>
> Yes I read this part of the manual before posting my question.  
>
> As I understand the manual, I have the possibility to customize a
> static list of agenda files in org-agenda-files or to manually
> add and remove org files from the agenda or restrict the agenda
> manually.
> I do not see how to *automatically* add open org-files to the
> agenda?  Perhaps I could do this with some hooks?
>
> Actually I think a static list of files which contribute to the
> agenda is fine.  
> But I wished there was also the ability to define a list of files
> which do only contribute to the agenda if already open
> (preferably with some pattern matching, so one could customize
> org to add any open org file to the agenda).
>
> Ciao, Gregor

You could certainly do this with a function attached to
`find-file-hook'. In the function, check if (buffer-file-name) ends in
".org": if it does, then `org-agenda-file-to-front' and you're good to
go.