From: Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: evita moreno <evitamoreno80@live.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode and searching for multiple occurances
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:46:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B72D4D4.6050202@cs.tu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SNT111-W3104C08D5800D7E9E4C7DDD04F0@phx.gbl>
Hello Evita,
you may want to try M-x org-occur:
> org-occur is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `org.el'.
>
> (org-occur regexp &optional keep-previous callback)
>
> Make a compact tree which shows all matches of regexp.
> The tree will show the lines where the regexp matches, and all higher
> headlines above the match. It will also show the heading after the match,
> to make sure editing the matching entry is easy.
> If keep-previous is non-nil, highlighting and exposing done by a previous
> call to `org-occur' will be kept, to allow stacking of calls to this
> command.
> If callback is non-nil, it is a function which is called to confirm
> that the match should indeed be shown.
But this only shows the matching entries, it doesn't generate a list of the
entries (like running a query on a database).
Hth,
Stephan
Also sprach evita moreno:
> Hello to everyone!
>
> I am a teacher trying to teach young people how to use org-mode for
> writing. We have created a database with notes on literature review
> outlined in org-mode in the following format:
>
> * jones2000
> blah blah blah keyword1 keyword2
> *jones2007
> blah blah keyword2
>
> and so on. I was wondering whether there is a way where one can search
> for a keyword in the database (more than 350 papers up to now) and can
> get in an automatic fashion in which of the jones' entries these
> keywords occur (pretty much like using MS Access and running a query).
> Is this possible? Maybe what I am asking for is outright
> crazy/impossible but I thought I should give it a go!
>
> Evita
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-10 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-10 15:34 Org-mode and searching for multiple occurances evita moreno
2010-02-10 15:46 ` Stephan Schmitt [this message]
2010-02-10 21:20 ` Matt Lundin
2010-02-11 9:45 ` Stephan Schmitt
2010-02-11 10:09 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-02-11 12:08 ` Matthew Lundin
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