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From: Joseph Kern <jkern@semafour.net>
To: Brian Wood <bwood@berkeley.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Best practices? Multiple .org files?
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:55:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALcYdLC1se98TNNRSDemANtgFEjLNKrQ46K-h2snDzQMdcN5nw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5FC269.3000700@berkeley.edu>

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On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Brian Wood <bwood@berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I've been using orgmode for 6 months and really like it. I started with on
> monolithic work.org file.  I'm worried that at some point this file will
> get too big and bog down emacs.  I'm not sure how big it would have to
> be...?  To avoid that I'm thinking that I should break up this file into
> multiple .org files in a directory.  If I do that:
>
> 1. I would like to still see the same top-level tree that I see now when I
> shift-Tab e.g:
>
> * Admin
> * Drupal
> * MacOS
> * Linux
> * Time Reports
>
> So if I create drupal.org that contains the contents of "* Drupal", and I
> remove "* Drupal" from work.org, is there a way to still see my top level
> tree including "Drupal"?
>
> 2. Is there a way I can search for a string across all of my .org files
> from within orgmode?
>

Yes. Search view:

C-c a s

This is a special search that lets you select entries by matching a
substring or specific words using a boolean logic


http://orgmode.org/guide/Search-view.html

>
> --
> Brian Wood
> Applications Programmer
> UC Berkeley IST Application Services
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-01 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-01 17:35 Best practices? Multiple .org files? Brian Wood
2011-09-01 17:55 ` Joseph Kern [this message]
2011-09-01 18:38   ` Brian Wood
2011-09-01 21:01     ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-09-01 22:47       ` suvayu ali
2011-09-02 10:35 ` Christian Moe
2011-09-02 12:37   ` Joseph Kern
2011-09-02 12:55   ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-02 16:36     ` Brian Wood
2011-09-02 18:28       ` Eric S Fraga

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