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

[Ihor Radchenko]

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"))

> 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

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