Re: Emacs inserts hardwired org-agenda-files variable, overwriting user options

[Kyle Meyer]

daniela-spit@gmx.it writes:

>> From: "Tom Gillespie" <tgbugs@gmail.com>
[...]
>> If you have that then your list will be retained. However Emacs will
>> probably continue to ask you to remove the missing file until some
>> file exists at that path. Not sure about the org agenda behavior for
>> missing files since I populate org-agenda-files by scanning folders
>> for existing org files and then having a blacklist to exclude files I
>> do not want.
>
> Yes it gives you hell in its demand to delete or abort, rather than
> ignoring the file.
>
> That's why I called the problem a bug.  If you don't find the file, ignore it.

If you want non-existing/unreadable files to be skipped, you can
configure org-agenda-skip-unavailable-files to a non-nil value.

That option unfortunately isn't mentioned in the manual or the docstring
of the org-agenda-files option.  If anyone is interested, a patch
improving the documentation would of course be appreciated.