Re: FAQ incorrect

["W.Bentley MacLeod" <bentley.macleod@columbia.edu>]

perfect. b.

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Professor W. Bentley MacLeod
Columbia University in the City of New York, NY 10027
http://www.columbia.edu/~wbm2103/
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Benjamin Andresen wrote:

> Hey W.,
>
> "W.Bentley MacLeod" <bentley.macleod@columbia.edu> writes:
>
>> FAQ on how to include all org files in a directory is incorrect (view 85).
>> Correct code is:
>> (setq org-agenda-files (file-expand-wildcards "~/org-files/*.org"))
>
> You are right.
>
> This isn't valid: (setq org-agenda-files "~/my/special/path/org/")
>
> M-x org-agenda RET will reply with: `org-agenda-files' cannot be a single directory
>
> I propose the following for the FAQ:
>
> (setq org-agenda-directory "~/Org/")
> (setq org-agenda-files (directory-files (expand-file-name org-agenda-directory) t "^[^\.][^#][[:alnum:]]+\.org$"))
>
> That will add every org file. I've had the problem of normal glob
> expansion to include emacs lock files that are in this format:
> .#todo.org
>
> I was under the impression that org-agenda-directory set to
> ~/my/special/path/org/ would Just Work(tm) because if you do C-c a a v A
> it pulls in the right files for me.
>
>> best bm
>
> br,
> benny
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