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Subject: Re: exporting all org files to txt periodically
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:40:26 +0100
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Hi Eric and Carl,

"Eric Schulte" wrote:
> Carl Bolduc <carlbolduc-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>> Where I work, we have a powerful search engine that indexes all kinds of
>> files. It detects the converter to use based on the file extension. It d=
oes
>> not understand the .org extension.
>>
>> I would like to know how I could periodically export my org files to txt,
>> maybe through a command, to a specific location on my network. This way,=
 the
>> search engine could index all my notes...
>
> Since Org-mode files are plain text, I don't think you would need to
> export them at all, rather I would imagine an easier solution would be
> to either
>
> 1. teach the search engine that .org means .txt

Just wanting to add a variant:

1bis. teach Emacs that .txt means Org-mode:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
      (setq auto-mode-alist
            (append '(
                      ("\\.txt$" . org-mode)
                      ) auto-mode-alist))
#+end_src

> 2. symlink all of your .org files to .txt file, e.g. on a linux, unix,
>    OSX system the following shell script will create a .txt symlink for
>    each .org file in the current directory
>    #+begin_src sh
>      for i in `ls --color=3Dnever *.org`;do
>          ln -s $i `basename $i .org`.txt
>      done
>    #+end_src

Best regards,
  Seb

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S=C3=A9bastien Vauban


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