From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Steve Quezadas <steve@thestever.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mark-and-select an item in org-mode
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:22:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8t_oTiDZDoC92aj0dG4DRk9c8Gzw0jewswwA2yaMJo+Dg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88e04d88-6d66-b917-a91b-49fb7163b7e3@thestever.net>
you can select /agenda/ items with m.
you can select /outline/ entries with a tag, then operate in agenda on
items that have that tag.
would be interesting to have a command to collect [org-id links to all
entries that use a tag] and stick them in a central location. dunno
if capture could do.
On 6/14/18, Steve Quezadas <steve@thestever.net> wrote:
> I'm not sure if there's something incredibly simple I'm missing here,
> but is there a way to just select an org-mode item when a cursor is on
> top of an org-mode item?
>
> I checked google/org-mode documentation and I can't find anything. So
> I went through the source code and noticed that procedure
> "org-move-item-up" has a function, "point-at-bol", that return the
> position of the line item that the cursor is standing on top of. I
> would imagine it would be trivial to do a "select mark" command for
> that item after that.
>
> Two questions:
> 1) Is there already an org-mode function that select or delete an
> org-mode line item?
> 2) If not, is it possible to do a "set-mark-command" on an org-mode line
> item (possibly derived from the "point-at-bol" command)?
>
> I am somewhat new to emacs-lisp, and I plan to "play around with it"
> to get it to do what I want it to do, but I thought I'd through it on
> the maillist to see if I am barking up the right tree. If it's not a
> feature in org-mode, I'm sure I can write my own function for it and,
> in the spirit of emacs, throw a patch to the project if wanted.
>
> - Steve
>
>
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2018-06-14 18:58 Mark-and-select an item in org-mode Steve Quezadas
2018-06-14 19:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-06-14 19:22 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
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