From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Witte Subject: Re: Narrow to sparse tree Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 17:02:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20120906144457.GA23059@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9day-0006iU-IX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:02:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9das-0007bP-65 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:02:16 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:65023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9das-0007b2-1L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:02:10 -0400 Received: by iagk10 with SMTP id k10so2490087iag.0 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:02:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120906144457.GA23059@debian> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Allisson?= Cc: Org Mode That's great, it gets me part of the way there. I also keep notes for each reference under their heading and I'd like to be able to see/edit them as well. Is there a way to do this in an agenda buffer? On 6 September 2012 16:44, Fran=E7ois Allisson wrote= : > Le jeudi 06 sep 2012 =E0 15:46:42 (+0200), Christopher Witte a =E9crit : >> I keep a bibliography in an org file using the excellent org-bibtex >> functionality. It has over 100 entries with a first level heading for >> each item. I tag each of the items with keywords/topics. Using >> sparse trees I can quickly find and navigate to items matching a >> particular tag, but if only 4 items out of the 100 have that tag the >> "signal to noise" is pretty bad. What I would like to do is narrow >> the buffer to just those entries that match the tag. I've looked in >> the manual but I couldn't find a way to do this. Can this be done >> with org? >> >> Thanks for the help, >> Chris. >> >> ps. using M-g n or M-g M-n (next-error) with sparse trees I expected >> it to wrap when you reach the end of the file but sadly this is not >> the case. Is there a reason for this? >> > > Hi Chris, > > Have you think of using the agenda views? In four keystrokes, you're > there with the best signal to noise ratio: > > - `C-c a' (or M-x org-agenda) > - `<' (to restrict the agenda view to the current buffer) > - `m' (for tags, property and todo keywords) > - `abc' (for tag :abc:), or (`YEAR'=3D2010 for PROPERTY :YEAR: equal > to 2010, etc). > > HTH, > > Fran=E7ois. > > PS: +1 for the excellent org-bibtex functionality !