Re: Refile: refile to any open file.

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu (Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo) writes:

> Isaac writes: 
>
>> Similar to this previous post, I am trying to file orgmode items 
>> to  files/buffers currently opened. Being elisp rookie, I tried 
>> and came up with  the following: 
>> 
>> (defun opened-buffer-files () 
>>   "Return the list of files currently opened in emacs" (delq nil 
>>   (mapcar (function buffer-file-name) (buffer-list))) ) 
>
> Perhaps you should return instead only the org mode files that are 
> opened, something like this:
>

Excellent idea: refiling to an arbitrary non-org-mode file will either
skip the file (if you are lucky, in which case you just pay a
performance penalty) or it will try to use it in which case you'll end
up with an error. There is no point in including arbitrary files into
the refile list.

> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp 
>   (delq nil  
>         (mapcar (lambda (x)  
>                   (if (and (buffer-file-name x)  
>                            (string-match "\\.org$" 
>                            (buffer-file-name x)))  
>                       (buffer-file-name x)))  
>                 (buffer-list))) 
> #+END_SRC
>

It might be better to check the major mode of the buffer, rather than
its filename: it is not necessarily true that foo.org is an org-mode
file, or foo.txt is not. But in general, I think it would be better to
use a more targeted approach, rather than trying to use whatever happens
to be open at the time.

-- 
Nick