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Subject: Re: Agenda file for the "following X days"
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:00:06 +0100
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To: Michael Markert <markert.michael@googlemail.com>
Cc: Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Michael Markert <markert.michael@googlemail.com> writes:

> On 7 Jun 2011, Detlef Steuer wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:10:12 -0500
>> Ugur Ozdemir <uozdemir@go.wustl.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As a novice I was wondering if there is an easy way of creating an
>>> agenda file for a certain number of days starting from today. I know
>>> I can do some custom agenda commands if I do some study but I guess I
>>> am trying to free ride here.
>>>
>>
>> And you get it, of course!
>>
>> (setq org-agenda-ndays 35)
>>
>> Where 35 is my number of days I like to look ahead.
>
> Building on this, you can define a function like that:
>
> (defun my-org-agenda ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((org-agenda-ndays 35))
>     (org-agenda)))
>
> Michael

Maybe you can just use the prefix key for your needs? 
C-u 5 C-c a a 
will create a 5 day agenda. It is left as an excercise for the reader to
create an 8 day agenda (or a 5-year plan, or any other use). :)

Or maybe you were looking for something else?
-- 
Johnny