From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Org mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement history facility for org-occur searches
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:16:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D84CA41-ED23-4107-AD6D-7D1D1B1D0D6C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMXnza0-xJVRrE35_yfEuOdLWekmqPQ+Z7omX6z24fEKo9EuMg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10.10.2011, at 09:47, suvayu ali wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> Sorry, I somehow missed this email.
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Carsten Dominik
> <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Suvayu,
>>
>> could you describe your use case for this addition? When would you need
>> this above calling org-occur again and using the minibuffer
>> history to repeat your search?
>>
>
> My use case was to easily traverse through a sequence of sparse-tree
> searches. Something that I thought might be useful when searching in a
> large file. My implementation is probably very suboptimal. I was
> hoping to find a way to take a "snapshot" of a sparse tree view, and
> then "undo" or "redo" a sparse tree view. By undo/redo I mean
> restoring the visibility states of the trees and the highlighted
> search text. However I couldn't find a way to get the "snapshot", so I
> tried repeating the searches to achieve a similar result.
We do have support for storing and setting outline visibility:
Take a look at the functions
org-outline-overlay-data
org-set-outline-overlay-data
and at the macro
org-save-outline-visibility
which uses the two functions described above.
If the searches are always the same, you might want to define them
as custom agenda commands.
> I have had time to think since I submitted the patch, maybe its
> something very specific to how I use org and is probably more
> appropriate as a local modification and not for inclusion in org (at
> least not in its current form).
OK, I will mark it rejected, feel free to come back when you have
something convincing (not only for us, but also convincing for you!) :)
- Carsten
>
>> - Carsten
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-10 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-23 23:47 [PATCH] Implement history facility for org-occur searches Suvayu Ali
2011-10-06 7:54 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-10 7:47 ` suvayu ali
2011-10-10 18:16 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-10-10 18:46 ` suvayu ali
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