Unable to initialize org agenda with log on Emacs startup

Question

I have been able to initialize org agenda on Emacs startup with:

(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook 'org-agenda-list)

However, now I want to initialize org agenda directly with log mode, and I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

Attempting to write

(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook 'org-agenda-start-with-log-mode '(closed clock))

resulted in an Emacs error about the symbol org-agenda-start-with-log-mode being void. I guess it's because org-mode related functions haven't been completely loaded yet on Emacs startup.

However, attempts to run it after org has been loaded have also failed:

(eval-after-load 'org-agenda
  '(org-agenda-start-with-log-mode '(closed clock)))

Is there a way to achieve what I want?

Answer 1

org-agenda-list is a function, but org-agenda-start-with-log-mode is just a variable. What you appear to want to do is call org-agenda-list with a certain value for org-agenda-start-with-log-mode. You can do this is as follows:

(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook
      (lambda ()
        (let ((org-agenda-start-with-log-mode '(closed clock)))
          (org-agenda-list))))

with the let clause creating a local binding.