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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: skip-entry-if category
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To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org


On Aug 22, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Matt Lundin wrote:

> Hi Memnon
>
> Memnon Anon wrote:
>> However, there is one thing I am not able to figure out:
>>
>> Using skipping, it is easy to limit my daily agenda to certain tags  
>> like:
>> (org-agenda-skip-function '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp  
>> ":STUDIUM:"))))
>>
>> Is it possible to do the same with Categories?
>> I think there must be a way, but all my attempts did not work :(.
>
> I believe this is not possible with the built in org agenda skip
> functions, since they search only the text within the subtree and do
> not recognize inherited tags and properties.
>
> However, I suspect that one could build a skip function using
> org-entry-properties that would accomplish this goal.

Much faster in this special case will be to use `org-get-category'
instead of accessing all properties of the entry with
org-entry-properties.

- Carsten