Subject: Re: bug#44935: Emacs inserts hardwired org-agenda-files variable, overwriting user options

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:12:24 +0100

> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 at 4:07 PM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: bug#44935: Emacs inserts hardwired org-agenda-files variable, overwriting user options
>
> > From: [email-masked]
> > Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:34:07 +0100
> >
> > I have identified a problem.  Let a user set the files to be used for
> > Org Agenda in .emacs as follows, and consider the situation when the
> > file writing.rcl.org does not exist.
> >
> > (setq org-agenda-files
> >    '("~/02histr/gadmin/writing.rcl.org"
> >      "~/02histr/gadmin/meeting.rcl.org"
> >      "~/02histr/gadmin/household.rcl.org"))
> >
> > Emacs demands that the file writing.rcl.org be removed from org-agenda-files.
> > Then Emacs sabotages the user's settings by hardwiring org-agenda-files at the
> > end of the file .emacs by inserting:
> >
> > (custom-set-variables
> >  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
> >  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
> >  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> >  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
> >  '(org-agenda-files
> >    '("~/02histr/gadmin/meeting.rcl.org" "~/02histr/gadmin/household.rcl.org")))
> >
> > This should be considered a bug.
>
> Shouldn't this be reported to the Org developers?

What mailing should I use to report it to Org Developers?