Re: Checking for tags efficiently

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 13, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> Using org-map-entries, I check for expired done tasks and
> then archive them.  I would like to skip archiving any
> subtree that has the tags[1] :data: or :repurpose:.[2]
>
> Is there a function for checking for the presence of tags
> efficiently (order 1) and robustly?  Is org-entry-properties
> the right thing to use?
>
> I'm trying to avoid future debugging.

Hi John,

when using org-map-entries, the second parameter is a string
that is a tags/property search.  There you can add -data and -repurpose,

like

(org-map-entries 'my-archive-function "-data-repurpose/!DONE" ...

or something like this.

HTH

- Carsten

>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] Immediate or inherited.  I recall seeing in the code
> somewhere a reference to a way to speed up the latter.
>
> [2] In case you are curious, my plan is to use these
> tags to indicate that while the tasks are done, they have
> data that should be refiled or they have content that should
> be repurposed.  The advantage of this over DATA and
> REPURPOSE todo kw is that they can be applied orthogonally
> to any todo states.  It's not ideal, because done should
> mean done, but I have not found a better arrangement yet.
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