From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: mediapathic steen <mediapathic@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Need help understanding how to limit a function to a tree
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:35:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ51ETqe+58_t_uf9sZA3R=7KCk9qGum6OkyfogPo6taP0x5wg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B5C77280-23FE-4A67-9418-C9D176253BAB@gmail.com>
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You probably want this:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defun my-redo ()
(interactive)
(org-map-entries
(lambda ()
(org-todo "TODO"))
"TODO=\"DONE\"" ;; the match argument
'tree)) ;; the scope
#+END_SRC
Then call:
M-x my-redo
in the tree you want to reset.
John
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:36 PM, mediapathic steen <mediapathic@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have a subtree that contains a daily list of things to do (which I keep
> as TODOs rather than checklist form for more granular time tracking). I
> want to reset all of the DONE to TODO every day when I start it. Right now
> I have this piece of code I copypasted from somewhere now lost (possibly
> this very group):
>
> (org-map-entries (lambda ()
> (when
> (string=
> (nth 2 (org-heading-components)) "DONE")
> (org-todo "TODO"))))
>
> This more or less makes sense to me. I have this code sitting in the
> subtree, and in order to do my daily reset, I edit the subtree in an
> indirect buffer, eval-region the code, then kill the buffer.
>
> What I would like to accomplish:
> 1) Can you help me understand how to modify this code so that it only
> applies to the subtree it's run in (parents also would be fine in this case
> but not necessary and seems more of a challenge)? Doing the indirect buffer
> thing seems more hassle than is reasonable.
>
> 2) I think I understand how to put this in my init in such a way that I
> can C-x invoke it, rather than having to eval-region it, but I'm not
> certain. Can you point me toward a reasonable tutorial or hints on how to
> do that in general?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -- Steen
>
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2018-03-01 0:36 Need help understanding how to limit a function to a tree mediapathic steen
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