Re: Problem with automatic recursive adding of org-agenda-files

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

[I got a private reply from Tor Eriksson which was obviously meant for
the list, so I am taking the liberty of reposting it here.]

> Tor Eriksson <teriksson2000@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Eric, Nick, Nicolas, thanks for the feedback.
>
> I tried (setq org-agenda-files '("~/org/")) instead, but on my
> installation it only finds files in this particular dir, not files in
> subdirs to that dir (which is what I want as well).
>
> Now, I tried C-c C-c (in org mode) right on the expression responsible
> for set org-agenda-files in my .emacs.d starterkit file (described in
> the earlier e-mail). To my surprise, this loads all the files into
> org-agenda-files correctly, including the file I renamed. Of course,
> if I now look in the agenda all my dates are there.
>
> However, when shuting off emacs and restarting it, it goes back to the
> old behaviour of loading all files except the newly renamed file. It
> is really strange.
>
> So, when starting from scratch via .emacs.d/starterkit, the file name
> of the new file fails to be set but all other file names are set
> correctly/pushed into org-agenda-files. When evaluating, with C-c C-c,
> the code in starterkit which loads the files to org-agenda-files, all
> files load correctly.
>
> Anyone having an explanation to this? If you have any suggestion for
> debugging please provide some short instruction, I am fairly good in
> programming in general but I am not super conversant with Emacs in
> particular.
>

I suspect you are somehow setting the variable again later in your
.emacs (or your custom file or ...), thereby overwriting its earlier
value. Or there is something going on with starterkit perhaps, but
somebody else will have to chime in here - I know nothing about
starterkit.

> I would be really greatful if we could solve this.

-- 
Nick