On May 9, 2014 11:21 PM, "Nick Dokos" <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
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> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > Just curious of there's a way to set the tags in a region all at once?
>
> (org-map-entries (function org-set-tags) nil 'region)
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> or
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> (org-map-entries (lambda () (org-set-tags-to '(foo))) nil 'region)
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> or some variation thereof.
>

I did see that function, but it didn't DUI what I expected with M-x. Would
u need to run it as above or could I use M-x with it somehow?

A above I take it I'd put that in the buffer and then eval-region?

John

> > I see there's a way to do it via agenda, but I was curious if there
> > was also a way to do it on a group of headlines from the buffer
> > itself. In various google strategies, it looked like the answer was
> > no.
> >
> > This is just a random file (making a camping packing/shopping list),
> > so to do it via the way that seemed apparent was:
> >
> > C-c a
> >> to restrict to the file
> > s to conduct a "fake search" that would just give all the headlines in
> > the buffer
> > highlight region
> > : to set tags
> >
> > It would have just been easier to C-space on a region and set them in
> > groups right from the buffer. I sort of expected something like C-u
> > C-c C-c to set region tags? Thinking about it, I suppose since these
> > happened to be tagged with :export:, I could have done an M-x
> > replace-string and appended my additional tag.
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> > John
> >
> >
>
> --
> Nick
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>