At Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:16:02 -0800,
lngn...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> So, to summarize, org-agenda-files should reflect those files I
> need to access because they have TODOs, Deadlines, Happenings, or
> Reminders in them. My search Universe should be constrained
> enough to result in instant searches, but not so constrained as
> org-agenda-files that need to be processed to produce a daily
> agenda.
Are you using `org-agenda-custom-commands' variable? You can specify
different sets of agenda files for different commands.
There is an `org-agenda-text-search-extra-files' variable, which when
bound, adds to the existing agenda files, and has a special value
'agenda-archives, which means all the .org_archive files with same
name as agenda files.
So assuming you have your regular org-agenda-files set to your
"minimum" universe, you can define extra searches like so:
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
'(("/" "Occur with archives"
((search ""
((org-agenda-text-search-extra-files '(agenda-archives))))))
("k" "Occur with archives + knowledge base"
((search ""
((org-agenda-files (cons "~/kb/" org-agenda-files))
(org-agenda-text-search-extra-files '(agenda-archives))))))
))
This will make C-c a / search your normal agenda files, plus their
archives, and C-c a k will in addition search all org files and their
archives in ~/kb/ directory.
