David Masterson <dsmaster...@gmail.com> writes: > Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > >> David Masterson <dsmaster...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Hmm. Couldn't get rx (or rx-to-string) to work for me. Kept getting an >>> error that a stringp was expected for the argument to :exclude. I tried >>> variations on: >>> >>> :exclude (rx-to-string (seq (or "init" "calendar-beorg") ".org")) >> >> When you have '(:foo bar :baz eet), nothing inside is evaluated because >> of the quote. To evaluate expressions selectively, use backquote: >> >> `(:foo bar:baz ,(concat "foo" "bar")) > > I always had trouble with '"` in hacking Elisp. I should've studied the > language more 40 years ago... :( > >>> Reverted to using a simple regex as above with proper escapes. Can I >>> suggest making the complex example in 14.3.2 of the Org Manual use a >>> better example regex (in rx form?) as a hint to what :exclude can do? >> >> Sure. >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=773bba92a > > Perfect.
I spoke too soon -- I'm still getting the same error about expecting a string. You mentioned '`' above, but use ',' in your manual diff. I tried both (along with rx-to-string). -- David Masterson
