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From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd)
Subject: Re: automatically follow symlink to other folder when loading agenda
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:06:45 -0400
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Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2015-03-16 at 12:05, J. David Boyd <dboyd2@mmm.com> wrote:
>> I have 4 files I use for work in my main org folder.  And I have a
>> personal.org in another folder, that is inside of Dropbox.
>>
>> I created a symlink to personal.org in my main org folder.  When I start emacs
>> and load the agenda, it asks me
>>
>> Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link? (y or n)
>>
>> Is there some setting (that I can't seem to find) that will always just allow
>> this, rather than querying me?
>
> I don't know of that setting, but you can have your Agenda use a main org
> folder + files elsewhere without symlinks. I have:
>
> (setq org-agenda-files (quote ("~/Documents/Org/" "~/Dropbox/shared/file.org")))
>
>   -k.
>   


Thanks!  I didn't realize I could mix paths and explicit filenames at the same
time.

You learn something new every day!

Dave