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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Massive Org search
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:48:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lipnbhaf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h17trsu.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> ("François Pinard"'s message of "Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:23:45 -0500")

Hi François,

pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> I'm a rather recent Org mode user.  Consolidating my previous data into
> Org mode gave 385 files using 5,5 Mb.  I quickly found out that this is
> too much for Org mode, if I want to be able to search it all using Org
> mode means.  So, I segregated a handful of agenda files, and developed a
> small tool for when I need a massive org search (which is often).  Let
> me share it, in case useful to others.  For the code, see:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6554110/emacs-outline-mode-auto-expand-upon-grep/8439425
>
> The idea is simple: just use a recursive grep and normal compile-type
> buffer and commands, yet add a bit of code to reveal hidden text which
> is being located by the compile commands.  Also manage so that a mere
> C-s on the located buffer immediately show all occurrences.

I guess your code runs faster, but you might be interested in 

  M-x org-occur-in-agenda-files RET

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-04 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-04 15:23 Massive Org search François Pinard
2012-01-04 15:48 ` Bastien [this message]
2012-01-04 16:45   ` François Pinard
2012-01-04 15:49 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-01-04 16:51   ` François Pinard
2012-01-04 19:17   ` Org-mode performance (was: Massive Org search) Karl Voit
2012-01-05 13:14     ` Org-mode performance Karl Voit

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