From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (=?utf-8?Q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Pinard) Subject: Re: How could I mix COMMENT and TODO? Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:26:30 -0400 Message-ID: <86k41t3b21.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> References: <8662demmxr.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56390) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFxwh-0001ZD-5A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:26:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFxwe-0003wx-Qd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:26:34 -0400 Received: from 206-248-137-202.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.137.202]:62825 helo=mercure.progiciels-bpi.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFxwe-0003wf-Kl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:26:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: (suvayu ali's message of "Fri, 6 Apr 2012 00:44:27 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: suvayu ali Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org suvayu ali writes: > Fran=C3=A7ois Pinard wrote: >> I would also like to keep my TODO entries for this topic in the same >> file, and these are usually not to be published either. > Just use the noexport tag on the parent tree with the TODOs. > * Tasks :noexport: > ** TODO foo > ** TODO bar Excellent! Thanks a lot for remembering me this feature (I read about it a while ago, then forgot). It even works fine if we directly use: > * TODO foo :noexport: > * TODO bar :noexport: I much prefer this :noexport: tag to the COMMENT feature, and I changed them all. I also fully re-merged my split files, so everything is now in its proper place. Happiness! :-) Fran=C3=A7ois P.S. A tiny chat follows. In my very first tries with Org, a few months ago, I put all Org files into the agenda, to discover that Org was very, very slow. So, I changed it all and collected all agenda and TODO into three files only, holding lots of links to all other Org files where the information really was. Org recovered all its speed. And besides, to repair the lost search capabilities, I kludged M-x rgrep so it could search all Org files and "reveal" contents when visiting hits. Well, the "reveal" does not always work, but yet, the quicker search is constantly useful to me. Currently, having put TODOs back in their proper Org files and declaring them as agenda files, 38 agenda files are taken out from 360 Org files. Even if slightly less speedy than 3 agenda files, this is still very bearable: Org does not crawl. The way Org handles "org-agenda-files" as a string naming a file is really convenient to me, it eases the writing of external programs acting on them all. All in all, very satisfactory!