Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > David Masterson <dsmaster...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hmm. Couldn't get rx (or rx-to-string) to work for me. Kept getting an >> error that a stringp was expected for the argument to :exclude. I tried >> variations on: >> >> :exclude (rx-to-string (seq (or "init" "calendar-beorg") ".org")) > > When you have '(:foo bar :baz eet), nothing inside is evaluated because > of the quote. To evaluate expressions selectively, use backquote: > > `(:foo bar:baz ,(concat "foo" "bar"))
I always had trouble with '"` in hacking Elisp. I should've studied the language more 40 years ago... :( >> Reverted to using a simple regex as above with proper escapes. Can I >> suggest making the complex example in 14.3.2 of the Org Manual use a >> better example regex (in rx form?) as a hint to what :exclude can do? > > Sure. > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=773bba92a Perfect. -- David Masterson
