Ihor, if you're not already looking at this one I can investigate and put
together a patch.

Cheers,

Derek

On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 1:22 PM Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> wrote:

> Robert <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I am surprised by the interaction between org-agenda-files and
> customization behaviour.
> >
> > - org-agenda-files can be directories, which are scanned for org
> >   files. This is set in my init.el config.
> > - when another org file is added with org-agenda-file-to-front (C-c [)
> >   the directories in org-agenda-files are expanded to a list of files in
> in the
> >   customisation/custom.el file.
> > - when later an org file is added to the directory it is not clear why
> >   it is not picked up, since it is now missing from the expanded list.
> >
> > Expected behaviour: a new org file added to a directory specified in
> > org-agenda-files should be picked up by the agenda without needing to
> > use org-agenda-file-to-front. But org-agenda-file-to-front should
> > still be available for files not in that directory.
>
> Confirmed.
> This situation needs to be handled in `org-store-new-agenda-file-list',
> but it is not.
>
> --
> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
> Org mode maintainer,
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>

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