Re: [O] Handling errors in command line exporting of agenda?

[suvayu ali]

Hi John,

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:12 PM, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Do you run into the same problem if you one the file before hand in
>> read only mode? Something like this before the agenda command might
>> work.
>>
>> (find-file-read-only "FILENAME")
>
> How would I do this via the command line? Also, it's pulling from
> about 10 project files, so I'm not sure if I'd have to do this for
> every file or how that works since the org-batch-agenda command seems
> to be pulling from all of them. Perhaps there's some way to trigger
> emacs to think, "Everything is read-only from here out"?

If you can use wildcards to specify your files, it might be possible by
just one extra call to --eval. Something like this might work:

emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs --eval '(find-file-read-only "<wildcard>" t)' \
      --eval '(org-batch-agenda "w")' > ~/org/aux/agenda-export.txt



> find-file-read-only is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
> `files.el'.
>
> It is bound to C-x C-r.
>
> (find-file-read-only FILENAME &optional WILDCARDS)
>
> Edit file FILENAME but don't allow changes.
> Like C-x C-f, but marks buffer as read-only.
> Use C-x C-q to permit editing.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Suvayu

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