Thank you Gustavo, I got this to work after revisiting!
I changed my org-agenda-files to a single variable "org-agenda-files.org" ,
and populated
the file with my agenda files.
I modified the wrapper script to call the (org-agenda-files) function.
This is so nice - I have a lot of org-mode files and the ability to remove
files "root" heading is really nice when filtering by tag.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun njn-org-refile-filter-targets (orig-fun &rest args)
(let ((targets (apply orig-fun args))
(agenda-files (mapcar #'file-name-nondirectory (org-agenda-files))))
(cl-remove-if (lambda (x)
(member (car x) agenda-files)) targets)))
#+end_src
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 8:06 AM Gustavo Barros <gusbrs.2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nate,
>
> On Fri, Nov 01 2019, Nathan Neff wrote:
>
> > Indeed, I do use org-refile-use-outline-path 'file. However, I have a
> > simple
> > directory specified for my org-agenda-files. ("~/org-mode")
> > Therefore
> > I'll need to
> > do something a bit different.
> >
> > It appears that your solution creates "targets" which is the targets
> > list
> > of course, and
> > then it creates "agenda-files" which goes through org-agenda-files and
> > finds all the filenames
> > in org-agenda files.
> >
> > It then mutates "targets", and removes any entry which is a filename
> > from
> > org-agenda-files.
> >
> > Since my org-agenda-files is simply ("~/org-mode/") none of the
> > entries
> > match.
> >
> > Hmmm, let me ask: Why not simply go through targets and remove any
> > entry
> > whose value is
> > a simple filename? Why search org-agenda-files first? This function
> > also
> > assumes that the org-refile-targets
> > always comes from org-agenda-files.
> >
> > I'll play with your function and see what I can get -- thank you for
> > the
> > head-start!
> >
> > Thanks
> > --Nate
>
> I'm glad this might be useful to you. And you are correct in all of
> observations.
>
> My main point is simply that, as things stand, you won't be able to trim
> the file level candidates with `org-refile-target-verify-function`, as
> they are hardcoded. But this simple function is the sketch of a
> (hackish) way.
>
> `org-refile-get-targets`' main purpose is to return the list of
> targets. The advice function grabs this return value, filters the list
> and returns the filtered list. How it filters may depend, as you noted.
> I've chosen a simple criterion which meets my use case
> (`org-agenda-files`, as I specify the individual files directly there,
> and use only those as refile targets). Indeed, it does make some
> presumptions, as you noted. (The function does not "search
> org-agenda-files" though, it just gets the list of their names, which is
> contained in the variable). In your case, you will certainly have to
> devise another filtering criterion. I think the one you suggest is a
> good one too.
>
> Best regards,
> Gustavo.
>
