On Friday, 19 Sep 2014 at 10:41, hymie! wrote:
> In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
>   Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>, who said:
>>
>>Read again! =>
>
>
>>| If the value of the variable is not a list but a single file name,
>>| then                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> That's what I did.
>
>    (setq org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org/agenda.file.list")))

which sets the variable to a list of one string, which is *not* what you
want.  Try

(setq org-agenda-files "~/org/agenda.file.list")

instead.  A single file name versus a list with a single file name are
very different constructs!
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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.50.1, Org release_8.3beta-360-ge17ee8