Re: Re: [feature request] use relative path in the file set by org-agenda-files

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Mikael,

thanks for the patch, I have applied it.

It is incomplete in the following sense:  When I add another file
with `C-c [', the the expanded file names will be written back
to the file.  So maybe it would be useful to implement an inverse
operation in `org-store-new-agenda-file-list'.  I guess you cannot
get back environment variables because you don't know which
ones to use.  But getting back "~", and removing org-directory
might be nice.  Such a file could then be kept, for example
in the drop box and could work on different machines.

- Carsten

On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Mikael Fornius wrote:

>
> I have made a small patch implementing the following behavior:
>
> With org-agenda-files = "/home/mfo/org/agenda", a filename.
>
> | Line in agenda-file    | Expands to:                  |
> |------------------------+------------------------------|
> | $HOME/org/org-mode.org | "/home/mfo/org/org-mode.org" |
> | td/td.org              | "/home/mfo/org/td/td.org"    |
> | ~/org/test.org         | "/home/mfo/org/test.org"     |
> | scratch.org            | "/home/mfo/org/scratch.org"  |
> | /home/mfo/org/wep.org  | "/home/mfo/org/wep.org"      |
> | ../te.org              | "/home/mfo/te.org"           |
> |------------------------+------------------------------|
>
> Here is the patch to current git-head:
>
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index 84bec4c..dad9293 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -14672,8 +14672,10 @@ the buffer and restores the previous window  
> configuration."
>   (when (stringp org-agenda-files)
>     (with-temp-buffer
>       (insert-file-contents org-agenda-files)
> -      (org-split-string (buffer-string) "[ \t\r\n]*?[\r\n][ \t\r 
> \n]*"))))
> -
> +      (mapcar (lambda (f)
> +		(expand-file-name (substitute-in-file-name f)
> +				  (file-name-directory org-agenda-files)))
> +	      (org-split-string (buffer-string) "[ \t\r\n]*?[\r\n][ \t\r 
> \n]*")))))
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun org-cycle-agenda-files ()
>
> -- 
> Mikael Fornius
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- Carsten