collect info from org files in agenda when open?

collect info from org files in agenda when open?

[Gregor Zattler]

Dear org-mod users and developers,

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?

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

[Noorul Islam K M]

Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:

> Dear org-mod users and developers,
>
> 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

Thanks and Regards
Noorul

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

[Gregor Zattler]

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

[Eric Abrahamsen]

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.

automagically add/remove org mode buffers to agenda files list (was: Re: collect info from org files in agenda when open?)

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi Eric, org-mod users and developers,
* Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> [13. Jul. 2013]:
> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
>> 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).
> 
> 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.

Your answer motivated me to play with org-mode-hook.  Now I have
the following as part of my init.el:

; start with diary in agenda
(setq org-agenda-files '("~/org/diary.org"))
; automatically add org files to agenda
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-agenda-file-to-front)
; automagically remove killed org buffers from agenda files list
(add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'org-remove-file)

But the last hook does not work as espected.  Instead it says
"Current buffer does not visit a file".  But according to the
documentation kill-buffer-hook is run before the buffer is
actually killed and the buffer is current when calling the hook.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?


Ciao, Gregor
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RE: automagically add/remove org mode buffers to agenda files list (was: Re: collect info from org files in agenda when open?)

[Drew Adams]

> (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'org-remove-file)
> 
> But the last hook does not work as espected.  Instead it says
> "Current buffer does not visit a file".  But according to the
> documentation kill-buffer-hook is run before the buffer is
> actually killed and the buffer is current when calling the hook.
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

I have no idea what `org-remove-file' does, but if it expects
the current buffer to be visiting a file then that explains
your problem.  `kill-buffer-hook' is run whenever ANY buffer is
killed, not just a buffer visiting a file.  And Emacs uses lots
of buffers that are not visiting files.

What you can do is use a different function, `foo', that first
tests whether the current buffer is the kind of buffer you want
to apply `org-remove-file' to, and if so invoke that, and if not
do nothing.

Re: automagically add/remove org mode buffers to agenda files list (was: Re: collect info from org files in agenda when open?)

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi Drew, org-mode-community,
* Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> [14. Jul. 2013]:
>> (add-hook 'kill-buffer-hook 'org-remove-file)
>> 
>> But the last hook does not work as espected.  Instead it says
>> "Current buffer does not visit a file".  But according to the
>> documentation kill-buffer-hook is run before the buffer is
>> actually killed and the buffer is current when calling the hook.
>> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> I have no idea what `org-remove-file' does, but if it expects
> the current buffer to be visiting a file then that explains
> your problem.  `kill-buffer-hook' is run whenever ANY buffer is
> killed, not just a buffer visiting a file.  And Emacs uses lots
> of buffers that are not visiting files.
> 
> What you can do is use a different function, `foo', that first
> tests whether the current buffer is the kind of buffer you want
> to apply `org-remove-file' to, and if so invoke that, and if not
> do nothing.

Thanks, this helped.  

For the record: I wrote function which tests if the current
buffer is associated with a file and if it is in org-mode.  Iff
so I remove it from the list of agenda files.



Ciao, Gregor
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