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From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Org mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement history facility for org-occur searches
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:47:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMXnza0-xJVRrE35_yfEuOdLWekmqPQ+Z7omX6z24fEKo9EuMg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8BC585D4-66F5-4FB3-9D85-5B23C6E44C0C@gmail.com>

Hi Carsten,

Sorry, I somehow missed this email.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Suvayu,
>
> could you describe your use case for this addition?  When would you need
> this above calling org-occur again and using the minibuffer
> history to repeat your search?
>

My use case was to easily traverse through a sequence of sparse-tree
searches. Something that I thought might be useful when searching in a
large file. My implementation is probably very suboptimal. I was
hoping to find a way to take a "snapshot" of a sparse tree view, and
then "undo" or "redo" a sparse tree view. By undo/redo I mean
restoring the visibility states of the trees and the highlighted
search text. However I couldn't find a way to get the "snapshot", so I
tried repeating the searches to achieve a similar result.

I have had time to think since I submitted the patch, maybe its
something very specific to how I use org and is probably more
appropriate as a local modification and not for inclusion in org (at
least not in its current form).

> - Carsten

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-10  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-23 23:47 [PATCH] Implement history facility for org-occur searches Suvayu Ali
2011-10-06  7:54 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-10  7:47   ` suvayu ali [this message]
2011-10-10 18:16     ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-10 18:46       ` suvayu ali

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