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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-map-entries - wrong use or bug?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:47:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc5gwk37.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mwqsv6dw.fsf@gmail.com

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
> One more question: what would be the syntax for matching a property? I
> could not find a single example of this in the whole org-mode/lisp/
> directory.
>

Use the docs, Luke!

    (info "(org) Matching tags and properties")


> Imagine the doc looks like this:
>
> ,--------------------------------------------------------
> | * my todos
> | ** get things done
> |    :PROPERTIES:
> |    :author:   My Name
> |    :END:
> | ** take care of things
> | ** procrastinate when tasks are unpleasant 
> | ** delegate really unpleasant tasks            :repeat:
> `--------------------------------------------------------
>
> By trial-and-error I found out that tags match like this:
>
>  ,--------------------------------------
>  | M: (length (org-map-entries t "repeat"))
>  `--------------------------------------
>
> but for the property I get result 0 except with
>
>  ,--------------------------------------
>  | M: (length (org-map-entries t "/*author"))
>  `--------------------------------------
>
> or
>
>  ,--------------------------------------
>  | M: (length (org-map-entries t "/-author"))
>  `--------------------------------------
>
> which return 5. 
>
> Whats the syntax in this case?

-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-14 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-14 18:34 org-map-entries - wrong use or bug? Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-14 18:38 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-14 18:55 ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-14 18:59   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-14 19:28   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-06-14 19:47     ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2013-06-14 19:52       ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-27 15:28         ` Bastien
2013-06-14 19:57       ` Thorsten Jolitz

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