Re: Q: org-publish-project-alist and :exclude

[David Masterson]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson@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