From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to find the headline matching a string
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:27:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egz4ykx2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d2ep5ubs.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> I guess it shouldn't be too surprising -- the org element stuff is
>>> completely parsing the entire buffer on every pass. The other function
>>> probably boils down to passing a few targeted regexps over the buffer.
>>> I've sneakily cc'd Nicolas to see what he thinks. My guess is we could
>>> replace the call to org-element-parse-buffer with something that
>>> creates/accesses the cached version of the parse tree, and things would
>>> go much more swiftly.
>>
>> I didn't look closely into the issue, but I think the main reason is
>> that Element parses headlines thoroughly, including all properties,
>> scheduled keywords, which is not, by default, the case for
>> `org-map-entries'.
>>
>> For most use-cases, you don't need the parser for headlines, as their
>> grammar is context free. IOW, `org-element-parse-buffer' doesn't predate
>> `org-map-entries'.
>
> Interesting, thanks! I think at first we were unsure if org-map-entries
> was going to stay around in the long term, but it sounds like it's not
> going anywhere.
Yes, thanks for the feedback, org-map-entries is very useful and
powerful but I wasn't sure if its still a "first-class member" of
Org-mode or already a bit deprecated. Nice to hear that it is going to
stay.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-04 11:27 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
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 [this message]
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