From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Get a list of tasks completed today
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:27:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iosd69ok.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87txbx4yl6.fsf@gmail.com
Trevor Murphy <trevor.m.murphy@gmail.com> writes:
> ...
> One thing I'd like to do is run a function over every item that was
> closed this past week. For sake of example, let's say I've added a
> property ":mood: 5" to several closed items and I'd like to delete it
> (but only from the closed items; I'm not necessarily deleting the
> property globally.)
>
> To do this I tried pulling all the closed items, visiting them in
> turn, and calling (org-delete-property "mood"). But I got stuck
> pulling all the closed items, because `org-tags-view' and friends all
> build an agenda as a side effect.
>
> Is my best bet simply re-implementing the parts of `org-tags-view'
> that I need?
>
> Or is there a more common way to use the org machinery to work with
> items in lisp code?
>
You should be able to do this with the mapping and property APIs:
(info "(org) Using the mapping API")
(info "(org) Using the property API")
--
Nick
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-17 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-13 10:35 Get a list of tasks completed today Sebastien Vauban
2014-02-16 19:46 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-02-17 8:07 ` Loris Bennett
2014-02-17 13:40 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-02-17 14:12 ` Trevor Murphy
2014-02-17 14:33 ` Trevor Murphy
2014-02-17 15:27 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
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