Re: Re: Problem with agenda file list

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hi Jose,

in principle it would be possible, of course, to write a
custom function that directly modifies a special Org
configuration file.  However, that is even less clean than
what I was doing so far and is bound to cause problems.  What
if another person does *not* have a special file for Org?
Should I then directly manipulate .emacs?  I think this is
not acceptable.

There is of course, a simple solution for you:  Set the value
of org-agenda-files with a lisp setq form in .emacs, and never use
`C-c [' and `C-c ]' to modify the list.  If you want to be sure,
disable these functions with `disable-command'.

- Carsten

On Apr 27, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> On Apr 27, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Eddward DeVilla wrote:
>>
>
> [...]
>
>>> Anyhow, I'm pretty sure I only add files with the org-mode menu  
>>> and I
>>> think the key sequence C-].  (The machine I'm on doesn't have org- 
>>> mode
>>> at the moment.)  I don't modify the list much though.  I can try to
>>> stress it if you like.
>>
>>
>> Please do, I think this would be useful.  I will switch to this setup
>> myself.
>>
>
> I will too. But i think this solution is suboptimal: i already have a
> .el file to store my org-specific configuration, and this obligues  
> me to
> split my configuration into two files, the only reason being that i
> don't want org to overwrite my customisation variables.
>
> I'm not privy with the implementation details, but i guess the  
> overwrite
> is unavoidable when not using the additional file? I'm a bit surprised
> by this fact: i use dozens of emacs packages, and org is the first one
> wanting to modify my custom.el; even in cases where customising a
> variable must trigger some additional side-effect, there's some  
> function
> one can call in the init file to both set the variable and trigger the
> additional side-effects.
>
> That said, if this is the only workable solution, so be it :)
>
> jao
> -- 
> A student came to the master and asked, for the master was one of them
> who knew such things: "Does Emacs have the Buddha nature?" The master
> contemplated this for some time, and answered: "I don't see why not,
> it has about everything else."
>
>
>
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