From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: How to find the headline matching a string Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 23:27:55 +0800 Message-ID: <87bnuedl38.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wql9w-00009g-Qz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2014 11:25:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wql9q-0004eO-PB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2014 11:25:24 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56922) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wql9q-0004e8-If for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2014 11:25:18 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wql9L-0004G1-OB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2014 17:24:47 +0200 Received: from 123.122.42.72 ([123.122.42.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 May 2014 17:24:47 +0200 Received: from eric by 123.122.42.72 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 May 2014 17:24:47 +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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Chris Poole 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