Re: [O] list of agenda files in a file

[Thorsten Jolitz]

address@hidden (hymie!) writes:

> Greetings.
>
> I'd like to add my _archive files to my agenda.  I don't need the entries
> clogging up my day-to-day .org files, but I want the items to still
> appear in my agenda.
>
> I found this in the org manual:
>
>>The information to be shown is normally collected from all agenda files,
>>the files listed in the variable org-agenda-files[98].
>>
>>[98] If the value of that variable is not a list, but a single file name,
>>then the list of agenda files will be maintained in that external file.
>
> So based on that, I put this in my .emacs file:
>   (setq org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org/agenda.file.list")))
> but I cannot seem to get this to work.
>
> When that file has a plain old list of filenames in it, I get an error
> Agenda file ~/org/agenda.file.list is not in `org-mode'
>
> When that file is empty, then there is nothing in my agenda.  I then
> tried using C-c [ to add a file to the list, and I end up with
>  '(org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org/file.org" "~/org/agenda.file.list")))
> in my .emacs file.
>
> Am I misunderstanding?  The manual sounds like I can maintain a file
> that contains a list of files that the agenda should use.  But I can't
> seem to make that happen, either automatically or manually.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Read again! =>

,----[ C-h v org-agenda-files RET ]
| org-agenda-files is a variable defined in `org.el'.
| Its value is ("~/git/org/agenda")
| Original value was nil
| 
| Documentation: The files to be used for agenda display.  Entries may
| be added to this list with M-x org-agenda-file-to-front and removed
| with M-x org-remove-file.  You can also use customize to edit the
| list.
| 
| If an entry is a directory, all files in that directory that are
| matched by `org-agenda-file-regexp' will be part of the file list.
| 
| If the value of the variable is not a list but a single file name,
| then                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
| the list of agenda files is actually stored and maintained in that
| file, one agenda file per line.  In this file paths can be given
| relative to `org-directory'.  Tilde expansion and environment variable
| substitution are also made.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
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cheers,
Thorsten