Re: Narrow to sparse tree

["François Allisson" <francois@allisson.co>]

Le jeudi 06 sep 2012 à 15:46:42 (+0200), Christopher Witte a écrit :
> I keep a bibliography in an org file using the excellent org-bibtex
> functionality.  It has over 100 entries with a first level heading for
> each item.  I tag each of the items with keywords/topics.  Using
> sparse trees I can quickly find and navigate to items matching a
> particular tag, but if only 4 items out of the 100 have that tag the
> "signal to noise" is pretty bad.  What I would like to do is narrow
> the buffer to just those entries that match the tag.  I've looked in
> the manual but I couldn't find a way to do this.  Can this be done
> with org?
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> Chris.
> 
> ps. using M-g n or M-g M-n (next-error) with sparse trees I expected
> it to wrap when you reach the end of the file but sadly this is not
> the case.  Is there a reason for this?
> 

Hi Chris,

Have you think of using the agenda views? In four keystrokes, you're
there with the best signal to noise ratio:

- `C-c a' (or M-x org-agenda)
- `<'     (to restrict the agenda view to the current buffer)
- `m'     (for tags, property and todo keywords)
- `abc'   (for tag :abc:), or (`YEAR'=2010 for PROPERTY :YEAR: equal 
           to 2010, etc).

HTH,

François.

PS: +1 for the excellent org-bibtex functionality !