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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Subject: Re: Archiving drawers?
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:56:34 +0200
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Hi Loris,

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Loris,
>>
>> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>>
>>> I have a small number of tasks that I clock into daily.  I have already
>>> manually split off the older log entries into a separate draw called
>>> OLDLOGS.  However, I was wondering whether there is a way of archiving
>>> these log entries while preserving the heading itself in the original
>>> org file.
>>
>> The question is: _where_ to archive those log entries?
>>
>> The best idea I can think of is another drawer, like you did.
>> As for automating this a bit, a nice Elisp exercise :)
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of the way archiving works already,
> but instead of moving the whole heading, a copy of the heading plus the
> old logs would be made in the archive file, and the old logs would be
> deleted from the original file, i.e.

But then archiving the "* Make tea" headline would require to merge the
logs of the archived one and those of the alive one.  Quite some work.

-- 
 Bastien