Apologies for the delay on this, between kids and massive internet-wide security incidents it's been a hectic couple of weeks. I've been digging around the related functions to better understand them and I think that this may also need to be handled in `org-agenda-file-to-front' because it actually expands whatever the current list is to just filenames here (using the github mirror because Savannah CGIT has not worked for me for weeks):
https://github.com/emacs-straight/org-mode/blob/main/lisp/org.el#L16105 `org-store-new-agenda-file-list' really just clobbers whatever is already there with whatever list is passed in. The current function doc doesn't really provide much meaningful intent: "Set new value for the agenda file list and save it correctly." (I guess it's better than saving it incorrectly 😂) In terms of how we actually want to fix this, I'd like some input on what a proper "move to front" would look like when one or more entries in the `org-agenda-files' custom var are directories. For example, if the current list is ("~/some-file.org" "~/some-directory") and someone calls org-agenda-file-to-front on "~/some-directory/myfile.org", do we want to promote the existing parent directory since it's already in the list: ("~/some-directory" "~/some-file.org") or would we want to explicitly only promote the current file: ("~/some-directory/myfile.org" "~/some-file.org" "~/some-directory") I'm not sure which of this is more "correct" (second one seems more explicit, at least), but either way I think it's hard to handle *after* the existing org-agenda-files is expanded out into discrete files. Cheers, Derek On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Derek Chen-Becker <[email protected]> writes: > > > Ihor, if you're not already looking at this one I can investigate and put > > together a patch. > > No, I am not looking at this one. Feel free to work on the patch. > > -- > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, > Org mode maintainer, > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. > Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, > or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92> > -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Derek Chen-Becker | | GPG Key available at https://keybase.io/dchenbecker and | | https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=derek%40chen-becker.org | | Fngrprnt: EB8A 6480 F0A3 C8EB C1E7 7F42 AFC5 AFEE 96E4 6ACC | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
