From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tilmann Singer Subject: Re: Agenda that shows hierarchy above matches? Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:55:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87prbcyjqz.wl%tils@tils.net> References: <87my6vdcp5.wl%tils@tils.net> <87fxcn4w1l.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> <87hbx3d1zi.wl%tils@tils.net> <7B7F5845-3C88-4E5D-8D36-C75DA26D2860@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXztE-0000mJ-9s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:55:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXzt9-0000iw-Jx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:55:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51341 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXzt9-0000iq-8L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:55:51 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50017 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MXzt8-0007d9-LV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:55:50 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MXzt4-0008HW-Fn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:55:46 +0000 Received: from dslb-088-072-213-114.pools.arcor-ip.net ([88.72.213.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:55:46 +0000 Received: from tils by dslb-088-072-213-114.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:55:46 +0000 In-Reply-To: <7B7F5845-3C88-4E5D-8D36-C75DA26D2860@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Cc: Carsten Dominik At Mon, 3 Aug 2009 06:31:24 +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:56:38 +0100, > > Eric S Fraga wrote: > >>> Given an projects.org like this: > >>> > >>> * Project A > >>> ** TODO do foo > >>> ** TODO do bar > >>> ** DONE do baz > >>> * Project B > >>> ** DONE do foo > >>> * TODO Another small thing > >> > >> add the CATEGORY property (C-c C-x p cat TAB) to A and B headings, > >> something like "Project A", say, and this will appear on the left of > >> the line in the agenda view in lieu of the file. Categories can help > >> give you a single level of context. > > > > Nice, thanks. That helps for certain cases. However, sometimes I have > > deeper nestings in my project files and would still like to see _all_ > > parent headlines of each item marked as TODO in an agenda > > overview. Also setting it as category would make it necessary > > duplicate the text of the headline. > > > > I guess what I really want is a sparse tree with all top level > > headlines removed that contain no match. > > What about follow mode in the agenda? The one thing that follow mode does not do is to reveal all contexts of all TODO or otherwise relevant items at once. Often my entries marked as TODO have some short text that only makes sense with its parents, such as "call again" or "reply", so when there are many of these items in the agenda, with follow mode I can only reveal the context of one at a time and have to keep all of the previous ones in short memory. Which is possible to a certain degree, but eventually reaches the limit of my short memory capacity ... When I put all headlines under a single top-level item such as "Projects", the sparse-tree does almost what I want (except that it does not aggregate multiple agenda org-files). But having a single top level parent feels a bit wrong. Til