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From: anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to convert org file to such a plain text
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:19:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k5evjuyl.fsf@fbsd.hasee.cpu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2f1c7d020808050428n16516ba4wac2eea140f7e5c38@mail.gmail.com

"Hugo Schmitt" <hugows@gmail.com> writes:

> anhnmncb, this helps you?
>
> (defun org-to-anhnmncb ()
>   (interactive)
>   (goto-char (point-min))
>   (let ((curlevel 0))
>     (while (< (point) (point-max))
>       (goto-char (point-at-bol))
>       (cond
>        ((looking-at "\\(\\*+\\)\\s-*")
>         (setq curlevel (1- (length (match-string 1))))
>         (replace-match (make-string curlevel ?\t)))
>        ((looking-at "\\s-*")
>         (replace-match (concat (make-string curlevel ?\t) "- "))))
>       (forward-line 1))))
>
> my test was this:
>
> * level1
>   item
> ** level2
>    item
>    item
> *** level3
>     item
>     item
> ** level2 again
>    item
>    item
>
> which gets converted into:
>
> level1
> - item
>     level2
>     - item
>     - item
>         level3
>         - item
>         - item
>     level2 again
>     - item
>     - item
>
> hope this helps,
> hugo
Really great, it helps me a lot! Thank you!

>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Eddward DeVilla <eddward@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I don't know if you use perl at all.  My first guess is:
>    
>        perl -pe's/^(\*+)(\s+.*)$/("\t"x length$1).$2/e' < TODO.org > TODO.txt
>    
>     Having tried it on a live file, I don't think the results are very
>     pleasing  Replacing a single character '*' with a tab creates a
>     formatting mess with any other text in the file.
>    
>     Edd
>    
>     On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:39 PM, anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> wrote:
>     > anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> writes:
>     >
>     >> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>     >>
>     >>> On Jul 26, 2008, at 9:52 AM, anhnmncb wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>> "Hugo Schmitt" <hugows@gmail.com> writes:
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> What are the odds that Carsten has plans to export to a format
>     >>>>> *you* just invented?
>     >>>> Oh, my pda app projekt can import this format of file, but if all of
>     >>>> you
>     >>>> think it's no use, nervermind.
>     >>>
>     >>> Hey, why the huff?
>     >>>
>     >>> The point is, you have not given us any chance at all to
>     >>> think it might be of any use!
>     >>>
>     >>> - Carsten
>     >>>
>     >> Sorry for delay, I can't reach the app website[1] right now, when it
>     >> can, I will provide the relavent information.
>     >>
>     >> [1] http://www.kylom.com/
>     >
>     > Sorry, I can't find more useful info, the app just says it can import
>     > the txt file which has different level of indents. So I think replace
>     > star(*) with <tab> is enough. Such like this:
>     >
>     > Org file              -->  txt file
>     > --------------------       --------------------
>     > |* level 1                 |level 1
>     > |** level 2           -->  |<tab>level 2
>     > |<tab>- item               |<tab>- item
>     > |*** level 3               |<tab><tab>level 3
>     > --------------------       --------------------
>     >
>     > I'm not a programmer, so if my request is stupid and easy to achieve by
>     > any other way, please let me know.
>     >
>     >>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:47 PM, anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> wrote:
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>   Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>> We do not have an exporter that can do this right now.
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> - Carsten
>     >>>>>   Will it come in furture?
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> On Jul 24, 2008, at 4:59 PM, anhnmncb wrote:
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>>   I want to export org to plan text, which pattern is:
>     >>>>>>   --------------------
>     >>>>>>   |level 1
>     >>>>>>   |<tab>level 2
>     >>>>>>   |<tab>- item
>     >>>>>>   |<tab><tab>level 3
>     >>>>>>   --------------------
>     >>>>>>   instead of
>     >>>>>>   --------------------
>     >>>>>>   |* level 1
>     >>>>>>   |** level 2
>     >>>>>>   |<tab>- item
>     >>>>>>   |*** level 3
>     >>>>>>   --------------------
>     >>>>>>   --
>     >>>>>>   Regards,
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>>    anhnmncb
>     >>>>>>   gpg key: 44A31344
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>     >
>     >  anhnmncb
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>     >
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-- 
Regards,

  anhnmncb
 gpg key: 44A31344

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-24 23:59 How to convert org file to such a plain text anhnmncb
2008-07-25 14:24 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-07-25 18:47   ` anhnmncb
2008-07-26 15:43     ` Hugo Schmitt
2008-07-26 16:52       ` anhnmncb
2008-07-28 17:40         ` Carsten Dominik
2008-07-30  5:06           ` anhnmncb
2008-08-04 17:39             ` anhnmncb
2008-08-04 21:21               ` Peter Jones
2008-08-05  1:43               ` Eddward DeVilla
2008-08-05 11:28                 ` Hugo Schmitt
2008-08-05 16:19                   ` anhnmncb [this message]
2008-08-05 16:18                 ` anhnmncb

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