Hello, Adam Porter <a...@alphapapa.net> writes:
> I've noticed that org-map-entries calls org-agenda-prepare-buffers > whenever its SCOPE argument is nil. According to the docstring, a nil > SCOPE means, "The current buffer, respecting the restriction if any," so > it doesn't seem necessary to call org-agenda-prepare-buffers. Here be dragons! > I noticed this because I have a function in my org-mode-hook that runs > org-map-entries (applying a read-only property to entries with a > read_only tag), and whenever I find-file on a non-existent Org file, I'm > prompted, "Non-existent agenda file %s. [R]emove from list or > [A]bort?", which is caused by org-map-entries being called with a nil > SCOPE, which calls org-agenda-prepare-buffers, which calls > org-check-agenda-file on the not-yet-existent file. So if this behavior > is indeed unnecessary, it would be nice to fix it. For simple cases like yours, I suggest to map over headlines manually, e.g., (goto-char (point-min)) (unless (org-at-heading-p) (outline-next-heading)) (while (not (eobp)) ... do stuff...) > Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Neither. `org-map-entries' is a complex function that arguably does more than it should. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
