From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to find the headline matching a string
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 23:27:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnuedl38.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAF=P9QCbOg50nOFFYCsxNiwjV-BQ9mUiNFntsW-GRsJQBN4awQ@mail.gmail.com
Chris Poole <lists@chrispoole.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Suppose I have a string, "my first task", that I know is tagged with
> "laptop".
>
> I want to search through the agenda files for a headline that matches
> this string, to be able to mark it as DONE (in an automated fashion).
>
> I can't find a function to search through for the headline --- is
> there one?
>
> Else, is it best to concat all the agenda files into a larger buffer,
> then parse the buffer and iterate through the headlines with
> org-element-map?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
Depending on how automated you need this to be, the `org-map-entries'
function can be given a scope of 'agenda (see its docstring). You could
call it with the agenda scope and a matcher for the "laptop" tag -- that
would at least get you all the headings in all the agenda files with the
"laptop" tag. Then the actual mapping function could call
`org-get-heading' on each of the matching headings, and check the text.
In these cases, though, I generally try to find a way to know the
heading's ID property, and use `org-id-goto'.
Hope that helps,
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-31 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-31 15:07 How to find the headline matching a string Chris Poole
2014-05-31 15:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2014-05-31 16:51 ` Chris Poole
2014-05-31 17:00 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-05-31 17:31 ` Chris Poole
2014-05-31 17:53 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2014-05-31 20:14 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-01 4:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-06-03 9:05 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-03 9:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-06-03 20:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-06-04 1:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-06-04 11:27 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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