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* org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
@ 2013-06-14 18:34 Thorsten Jolitz
  2013-06-14 18:38 ` Thorsten Jolitz
  2013-06-14 18:55 ` Nick Dokos
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2013-06-14 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


Hi List, 

I tried out `org-map-entries' with this file

,------------------------------------------------
| * my todos
| ** TODO get things done
| ** TODO take care of things
| ** DONE procrastinate when tasks are unpleasant
| ** DONE delegate really unpleasant tasks
`------------------------------------------------

with an example similar to the one in "Appendix A: Hacking" in the Org
manual

,--------------------------------------
| M: (length (org-map-entries t "\+Done"))
`--------------------------------------

but result is '0' while it should be '2'.

I debugged the function and it seems that the matcher does not match.
These are my todo keywords

,----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Result: "...\\(TODO\\|NEXT\\|DONE\\|WAITING\\|HOLD\\|CANCELLED\\|PHONE\\)...
`----------------------------------------------------------------------------

and this is the matcher

,----------------------------------------------------------------------
| (and (progn (setq org-cached-props nil) (member "DONE" tags-list)) t)
`----------------------------------------------------------------------

as evaluated on line line 13863 of org.el. 

Wrong use of `org-map-entries' or is there a bug?

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

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* Re: org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
  2013-06-14 18:34 org-map-entries - wrong use or bug? Thorsten Jolitz
@ 2013-06-14 18:38 ` Thorsten Jolitz
  2013-06-14 18:55 ` Nick Dokos
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2013-06-14 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> ,--------------------------------------
> | M: (length (org-map-entries t "\+Done"))
> `--------------------------------------

sorry, I actually used DONE not Done, but result is still '0' while it
should be '2'.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

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* Re: org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
  2013-06-14 18:34 org-map-entries - wrong use or bug? Thorsten Jolitz
  2013-06-14 18:38 ` Thorsten Jolitz
@ 2013-06-14 18:55 ` Nick Dokos
  2013-06-14 18:59   ` Thorsten Jolitz
  2013-06-14 19:28   ` Thorsten Jolitz
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Nick Dokos @ 2013-06-14 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

>
> ,--------------------------------------
> | M: (length (org-map-entries t "\+Done"))
> `--------------------------------------
>

Try

        (org-map-entries t "/+DONE" nil)

Note the slash.

> but result is '0' while it should be '2'.
>

-- 
Nick

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* Re: org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
  2013-06-14 18:55 ` Nick Dokos
@ 2013-06-14 18:59   ` Thorsten Jolitz
  2013-06-14 19:28   ` Thorsten Jolitz
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2013-06-14 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> ,--------------------------------------
>> | M: (length (org-map-entries t "\+Done"))
>> `--------------------------------------
>>
>
> Try
>
>         (org-map-entries t "/+DONE" nil)
>
> Note the slash.

Oh yes, I see, thank you!

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

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* Re: org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
  2013-06-14 18:55 ` Nick Dokos
  2013-06-14 18:59   ` Thorsten Jolitz
@ 2013-06-14 19:28   ` Thorsten Jolitz
  2013-06-14 19:47     ` Nick Dokos
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2013-06-14 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

One more question: what would be the syntax for matching a property? I
could not find a single example of this in the whole org-mode/lisp/
directory.

Imagine the doc looks like this:

,--------------------------------------------------------
| * my todos
| ** get things done
|    :PROPERTIES:
|    :author:   My Name
|    :END:
| ** take care of things
| ** procrastinate when tasks are unpleasant 
| ** delegate really unpleasant tasks            :repeat:
`--------------------------------------------------------

By trial-and-error I found out that tags match like this:

 ,--------------------------------------
 | M: (length (org-map-entries t "repeat"))
 `--------------------------------------

but for the property I get result 0 except with

 ,--------------------------------------
 | M: (length (org-map-entries t "/*author"))
 `--------------------------------------

or

 ,--------------------------------------
 | M: (length (org-map-entries t "/-author"))
 `--------------------------------------

which return 5. 

Whats the syntax in this case?

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

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* Re: org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
  2013-06-14 19:28   ` Thorsten Jolitz
@ 2013-06-14 19:47     ` Nick Dokos
  2013-06-14 19:52       ` Nick Dokos
  2013-06-14 19:57       ` Thorsten Jolitz
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Nick Dokos @ 2013-06-14 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
> One more question: what would be the syntax for matching a property? I
> could not find a single example of this in the whole org-mode/lisp/
> directory.
>

Use the docs, Luke!

    (info "(org) Matching tags and properties")


> Imagine the doc looks like this:
>
> ,--------------------------------------------------------
> | * my todos
> | ** get things done
> |    :PROPERTIES:
> |    :author:   My Name
> |    :END:
> | ** take care of things
> | ** procrastinate when tasks are unpleasant 
> | ** delegate really unpleasant tasks            :repeat:
> `--------------------------------------------------------
>
> By trial-and-error I found out that tags match like this:
>
>  ,--------------------------------------
>  | M: (length (org-map-entries t "repeat"))
>  `--------------------------------------
>
> but for the property I get result 0 except with
>
>  ,--------------------------------------
>  | M: (length (org-map-entries t "/*author"))
>  `--------------------------------------
>
> or
>
>  ,--------------------------------------
>  | M: (length (org-map-entries t "/-author"))
>  `--------------------------------------
>
> which return 5. 
>
> Whats the syntax in this case?

-- 
Nick

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* Re: org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
  2013-06-14 19:47     ` Nick Dokos
@ 2013-06-14 19:52       ` Nick Dokos
  2013-06-27 15:28         ` Bastien
  2013-06-14 19:57       ` Thorsten Jolitz
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Nick Dokos @ 2013-06-14 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> One more question: what would be the syntax for matching a property? I
>> could not find a single example of this in the whole org-mode/lisp/
>> directory.
>>
>
> Use the docs, Luke!
>
>     (info "(org) Matching tags and properties")
>
>

There probably should be a link from the "Using the mapping API" section
to the "Matching tags and properties" section. I thought there was one,
but I just checked and didn't see it.

-- 
Nick

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* Re: org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
  2013-06-14 19:47     ` Nick Dokos
  2013-06-14 19:52       ` Nick Dokos
@ 2013-06-14 19:57       ` Thorsten Jolitz
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2013-06-14 19:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> One more question: what would be the syntax for matching a property? I
>> could not find a single example of this in the whole org-mode/lisp/
>> directory.
>>
>
> Use the docs, Luke!
>
>     (info "(org) Matching tags and properties")

Ah, great, thanks again, thats what I needed. Did not realize that there
is another section about this topic, I thought Appendix A and the source
code is the only info available.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

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* Re: org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
  2013-06-14 19:52       ` Nick Dokos
@ 2013-06-27 15:28         ` Bastien
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2013-06-27 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nick Dokos; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

Hi Nick,

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> There probably should be a link from the "Using the mapping API" section
> to the "Matching tags and properties" section. I thought there was one,
> but I just checked and didn't see it.

Please feel free to add it if needed!

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

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