Re: Re: how to change the set of agenda org files between custom agenda commands

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>]

On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> Dan Griswold wrote:
>> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
>>> I am struggling to switch the set of used agenda org files between
>>> different custom agenda commands.
>>>
>>> I tried something like
>>>
>>> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>>>      '(
>>> 	("k" . "Kundenbezogene / Ketegoriebezogene TODOs ...")
>>>        ("ka" tags-todo "CATEGORY=\"ADMIN\"")
>>>        ("kP" tags-todo "CATEGORY=\"PRIVAT\""
>>> 	 ((org-agenda-files (quote ("~/org/PRIVAT/PRIVAT.org")))))
>> Playing with customize I came up with this possibility:
>> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>>      '(
>> 	("k" . "Kundenbezogene / Ketegoriebezogene TODOs ...")
>>        ("ka" tags-todo "CATEGORY=\"ADMIN\"")
>>        ("kP" tags-todo "CATEGORY=\"PRIVAT\""
>> 	 ((org-agenda-files
>> 	   '("~/org/PRIVAT/PRIVAT.org"))))))
>> Will that do it?
>> Dan
>
> Dan, thank you. I somehow does and doesn't.
> After using the command I get the "private" entries.
> After using another command analogous to this it seems I cannot  
> reset the org-agenda-files variable. Looks like it only adds files  
> to it?
> I played around a lot but could not get it to function as wanted.

Hi Rainer, Dan

I just tested this, with

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
       '(("ka" "aaa" alltodo ""
	 ((org-agenda-files
	   '("~/lib/emacs/work/org-mode/test/a.org"))))
	("kb" "bbb" alltodo ""
	 ((org-agenda-files
	   '("~/lib/emacs/work/org-mode/test/b.org"))))))

with small files a.org and b.org containing just one TODO entry, and  
of course my full suite of TODO entries available with `C-c a t'.

And then I do

C-c a t
C-c a a
C-c a b
C-c a t

and it all works just fine, going back end forth between these in any  
sequence.....

> Anyway, the syntax is quite complex.
> I wonder if some more examples for changing agenda files when  
> executing custom commands would be helpful.
> Anyone else who wants to see Agenden at home from different sets of  
> agenda files?

I think a good way is also to keep the list of agenda files in a file,  
like
~/.agenda_files_home and ~/.agenda_files_work.

The you can have different sets of files, and switch by making org- 
agenda-files

(defun org-my-toggle-agenda-file-set ()
  (interactive)
  (if (equal org-agenda-files "~/.agenda_files_work")
      (setq org-agenda-files "~/.agenda_files_home")
    (setq org-agenda-files "~/.agenda_files_work"))
  (message "Using %s" org-agenda-files))

- Carsten