Re: How to let Org Agenda search all files in a directory *recursively* ?

[david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:

> chris <numbchild@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> How to Let [C-c a] to search over all files in a directory *recursively* ?
>
> AFAIK, there's no built in way.
>
> Applying the following patch to the function org-agenda-files gets you
> there, but it's not clean at all, and certainly very unefficient :
>
> 	Modified   lisp/org.el
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index 7fd1576..0068c49 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -17797,8 +17797,7 @@ used by the agenda files.  If ARCHIVE is `ifmode', do this only if
>      (setq files (apply 'append
>  		       (mapcar (lambda (f)
>  				 (if (file-directory-p f)
> -				     (directory-files
> -				      f t org-agenda-file-regexp)
> +				     (find-lisp-find-files f org-agenda-file-regexp)
>  				   (list f)))
>  			       files)))
>      (when org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files
>
> Also it might be faster to rely on an external "find" tool but that requires
> modifying the regexp (-regex applies to whole path).
>
> HTH,

Huh, when I set my org-agenda-files to ~/org/, and have TODO files in
~/org/home and ~/org/work, and press C-c a a, it loads all the todo file,
recursed down to all the subdirectories.

However, and this is strange, after it loads them all up, it changes
org-agenda-files to discrete filepaths, and not just the directory anymore.

That seems like a bug to me....

Dave