Re: Agenda that shows hierarchy above matches?

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

On Jul 23, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Tilmann Singer wrote:

> At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:56:38 +0100,
> Eric S Fraga wrote:
>>> Given an projects.org like this:
>>>
>>> * Project A
>>> ** TODO do foo
>>> ** TODO do bar
>>> ** DONE do baz
>>> * Project B
>>> ** DONE do foo
>>> * TODO Another small thing
>>
>> add the CATEGORY property (C-c C-x p cat TAB) to A and B headings,
>> something like "Project A", say, and this will appear on the left of
>> the line in the agenda view in lieu of the file.  Categories can help
>> give you a single level of context.
>
> Nice, thanks. That helps for certain cases. However, sometimes I have
> deeper nestings in my project files and would still like to see _all_
> parent headlines of each item marked as TODO in an agenda
> overview. Also setting it as category would make it necessary
> duplicate the text of the headline.
>
> I guess what I really want is a sparse tree with all top level
> headlines removed that contain no match.

What about follow mode in the agenda?

- Carsten