Jeremie Juste <jeremieju...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello, > >>> If you have *both* a settings in your emacs init file for >>> org-agenda-files using (setq org-agenda-files...) and you have a line in >>> your (custom ...) section, you should remove one of them to avoid >>> confusion. In general, what is in the custom section will take >>> preference as it is usually loaded last. If your going to remove the one >>> in the custom section, run M-x customize-variable <ret> org-agenda-files >>> <ret> and then select the options under the 'state' button to 'Erase >>> Customisation', don't just erase the values in the 'Value Menu' box. >> >> Emacs automatically introduced the custom, did not write it myself. >> > I fear I might have been the source of the confusion by suggesting > the command (org-agenda-file-to-front), which has triggered another > definition of org-agenda-file in the custom-set-variables section. I > hadn't realized fully the consequences. > > I apologize for this and I hope that it won't turn any user > against each other. I must confess that among the mailing-lists I have > subscribed to, this mailing list is the most cordial. > > Yes using both the `custom-set-variables` section and setting variable > can introduce confusion. I am sure many of us have fallen prey to > (counting me many times). > > At the same time it is convenient for some people to be able to > customize easily some variable and some users might use > custom-set-variables exclusively. > > We just need to understand the consequences of it and I guess many > users of emacs eventually come to do with these two options and even use > the best of both world modifying directly variables in the init files > and using the custom-set-variables section. > > It is a bug? I wouldn't say so. Can we explain to (new) users better > about it? Probably. > I think your right. In addition, based on more info which has come out on the list, I agree with what Kyle has pointed out re: variable to tell org to ignore missing files. This needs to be referenced in the manual and the documentation for org-agenda-files. If nobody else has done it by the time I have finished my current priorities, I will put a patch together to add such references. This won't be for a couple of weeks. -- Tim Cross
