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From: Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, evita moreno <evitamoreno80@live.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Org-mode and searching for multiple occurances
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:45:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B73D19F.5010006@cs.tu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqa4kct0.fsf@fastmail.fm>



Also sprach Matt Lundin:
> evita moreno <evitamoreno80@live.com> writes:
> 
>> 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!
> 
> You can use org-search-view (C-c a s).
> 
> Best,
> Matt
> 

Just a remark:
If the file is not in org-agenda-files it is "C-c a < s"

Greetings,
	Stephan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-11  9:45 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
2010-02-10 21:20 ` Matt Lundin
2010-02-11  9:45   ` Stephan Schmitt [this message]
2010-02-11 10:09     ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-02-11 12:08       ` Matthew Lundin

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