How to enable agenda view in org mode

Question

I'm trying to enable agenda-view and use agenda features under org-mode.
As per the org-mode manual - Agenda section pressing the key sequence Ctrl + c + a followed by a to create calendar like agenda.

I tried this and it did not work. Then I saw the link for Activation to activate agenda view and also updated the .emacs file as shown below

;; This is for org-mode agenda view activation
 '(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))
 ;; This is for key bindings to invoke agenda mode (see line-2)
 '(global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
 '(global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
 '(global-set-key "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
 '(global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)

I restarted emacs twice. But nothing seems to work. I was following this YouTube video in order to see if I can make use of agenda feature in org-mode

Answer 1

You are quoting those lists, so they won't actually do anything.

Try removing the leading "'"s like so:

;; This is for org-mode agenda view activation
 (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))
 ;; This is for key bindings to invoke agenda mode (see line-2)
 (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
 (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
 (global-set-key "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
 (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)

In ELISP, when a list is quoted like this, nothing inside of it gets evaluated. This is handy when you want to pass around literal lists, but serves your purpose poorly in this case.