From: garjola@garjola.net
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Converting tags to TODO states
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:36:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s21ewkc.fsf@pc-117-162.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnpm84jr.fsf@norang.ca> (Bernt Hansen's message of "Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:26:16 -0400")
On Tue 16-Apr-2019 at 15:26:16 +02, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
wrote:
> garjola@garjola.net writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For my GTD implementation with org-mode, I have been using the :next:
>> tag for my next actions. I would like now to use a "NEXT" TODO keyword,
>> which means that I need to convert all :next: tags with "TODO" headlines
>> into "NEXT" headlines without the :next: tag.
>>
>> I have *a lot* of org files, so an automatic procedure is needed. Since
>> I am not fluent in elisp, I was going to write a python script to do
>> this, but maybe there is already a way to do this conversion with
>> org-mode itself?
>>
>> The tricky thing I see with parsing is dealing with the ":" in the case
>> of multiple tags (I know how to do this in python, but I don't in
>> elisp).
>>
>> Thanks for any hint you can provide.
>>
>> Garjola
>
> As this is a one-time change I would just use the agenda and bulk
> operations to fix your entries.
>
> If the files already contribute to your agenda (I assume they do)
> you can just run a tag match on :next:
>
> C-c a m next RET
>
> and mark all the entries returned with
>
> m (repeat for each task)
>
> then add a NEXT todo keyword
>
> B t NEXT RET
>
> and mark all the tasks again
>
> m (repeat for each task)
>
> and remove the :next: tag
>
> B - next RET
>
> and save your files.
>
> HTH,
> Bernt
Hi Bernt,
You just made me discover that one can change tags on bulk. I have used
bulk operations for rescheduling, but not for this.
That's great!
Thanks!
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