My configuration contains the equivalent of
(setopt org-agenda-files
(directory-files-recursively "~/.local/share/org/todo" ".org$"))
My Emacs setup broke today due to the presence of a lockfile inside
"~/.local/share/org/todo". I use EXWM, and I show org-agenda on startup:
(add-hook 'after-init-hook
(lambda () (org-agenda nil "t")))
(setq initial-buffer-choice (lambda () (get-buffer "*Org Agenda*")))
org-agenda-files contained a non-existent file, so org-check-agenda-file
attempted to prompt me. For some reason (maybe EXWM didn't fully load),
Emacs simply hung without prompting, leaving me with a black screen.
The attached patch silently removes lockfiles from org-agenda-files.
Thanks!
Joseph
P.S.
I'm not sure how the lockfile ended up there. Maybe I killed Emacs with
SIGKILL while one of my agenda files was open and modified in a buffer,
and so the lockfile was not deleted?
>From e69e69a03c215704d83f8388370f0db2bc93891d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Turner <jos...@breatheoutbreathe.in>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:24:10 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/org.el (org-check-agenda-file): Silently exclude
lockfiles
---
lisp/org.el | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 8929a7217..f48a8ff46 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -15563,8 +15563,12 @@ (defun org-file-menu-entry (file)
(vector file (list 'find-file file) t))
(defun org-check-agenda-file (file)
- "Make sure FILE exists. If not, ask user what to do."
+ "Make sure FILE exists. If not, ask user what to do.
+Automatically exclude lockfiles."
(unless (file-exists-p file)
+ (when (string-match-p (rx bos ".#") file) ; Exclude lockfiles
+ (org-remove-file file)
+ (throw 'nextfile t))
(message "Non-existent agenda file %s. [R]emove from list or [A]bort?"
(abbreviate-file-name file))
(let ((r (downcase (read-char-exclusive))))
--
2.41.0
