Emacs not loading org-agenda-files on startup

Question

So i've put this in my emacs.org:

(setq org-agenda-files (list
        "~/todo.org"))

But whenever i close and reopen Emacs, my org-agenda is empty until i reload my config-File. Is there anything that i've missed? Also i've tried some "eval-after-load 'org" combinations but none of them have worked for me so far. Some help or guidance in the right direction would be appreciated.

Answer 1

@Tim Hilt, thank you! Your own answer was the answer to my problem as well, so I'm making a real answer out of it for others. Apparently you and I both must have set the Org Agenda Files entry in the Custom (M-x customize) menu.

The solution is to erase this entry in the Custom menu so that your intended value in your startup file is not erased.

There are two ways to do this:

A) From @Stefan, to get to the Custom GUI menu in question quickly:

M-x customize-variable RET org-agenda-files RET

then click on the button State and choose Erase Customization.

B)

Before @Stefan cued me to (A), the easiest way I found was to find the custom set values which looks like this in my .emacs file (it might be elsewhere for you):

(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.

then below that find the line

'(org-agenda-files nil)

And delete that sucker! Restart emacs and you should be golden!

Answer 2

I have this in my init.el

(defun my-find-org-agenda-files ()
"Find all agenda files."
(interactive)
(require 'org)
(dolist (f org-agenda-files)
  (find-file-noselect f)))

In my case call it manually when I want to, but you could call it as part of your init.el. of you want to call it automatically, add:

(my-find-org-agenda-files)

Afterwards.

Note that this loads the files into buffers without switching to any of the buffers.

Answer 3

As you are using org mode for your init/emacs configuration, You can add this entry to the emacs.org , just replace with the actual location of your org file, which should be in the emacs.d (depending on system)

** Load emacs initialization file: 
    #+BEGIN_SRC key emacs-lisp
    (global-set-key (kbd "C-c i")
    (lambda() (interactive)(org-babel-load-file "~/emacs.d/emacs.org")))
    #+END_SRC

It is a babel code block that adds the binding C-c i for loading the emacs.org file.