Thanks again and a comment: What I wanted was just to hide the rest of the
file to help of focusing on the item at hand (project in this case). The C-x
n s does the job in this case (with C x n w to get back to the full view).

Marcelo.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <
celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Andreas Burtzlaff <andy13@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello Marcelo,
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:03:58 -0600
>> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello list,
>> >
>> > The sparse-tree feature is very useful when you want to follow tasks of
>> a
>> > specific project, and want to filter the whole org file to show only the
>> > relevant project tree. However, I did not find a way to apply this
>> function
>> > to a specific tree at the cursor point. Sometimes, I want to act by
>> project,
>> > and I know exactly where it is in the file, and I want to apply the
>> sparse
>> > tree at this item, instead of searching by regexp, todo, etc. Is it
>> > possible?
>>
>> Yes, that is possible by narrowing to the subtree.
>> While on the heading for the subtree you want to apply the sparse tree
>> function on press:
>> C-x n s     (to narrow to the subtree)
>> C-c /
>> C-x n w     (to widen the view to the whole file)
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>
>