From: Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@iname.com>
To: mcg <giepen.m@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs orgmode-mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-mode - export as folder structure possible?
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:16:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ1MqVHiAFWry_wKJDG8CeNLXn6P3JYzJ4xmoiUGHPuQ0ao65A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <823beaec-c9d3-d3c7-bc81-a99d33462574@gmail.com>
Have a look at the docstring for the function `org-element-map'.
On 17 November 2016 at 00:00, mcg <giepen.m@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to create a rather complex folder structure.
> It is OK to create that in dired but I think even nicer and faster it would
> be to create an org-mode outline which then exports this folder structure to
> the org document's directory.
>
> This could even be extended to create blank files with file extension within
> the directory - maybe communicated to the exporter with list items.
> Can the org-mode exporter be used or easily programmed for this kind of
> application?
>
> * Folder
> - Registry.xls
> - document.doc
>
> ** Subfolder
>
> *** Subsubfolder
> - some_document.txt
>
> ** Subfolder 2
>
> * Another folder
>
> ** another one
> - document.file_extension
> - ListB.xlsx
>
>
> With that functionality I could really thoroughly create a decent folder
> structure. With many people working on the windows server it becomes quite
> chaotic.
> Thanks in advance for any answer.
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-17 0:00 org-mode - export as folder structure possible? mcg
2016-11-17 8:16 ` Philip Hudson [this message]
2016-11-17 11:03 ` Marco Wahl
2016-11-26 18:31 ` Karl Voit
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