Re: Set tags in region

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
>
> Just curious of there's a way to set the tags in a region all at once?

(org-map-entries (function org-set-tags) nil 'region)

or

(org-map-entries (lambda () (org-set-tags-to '(foo))) nil 'region)

or some variation thereof.

> I see there's a way to do it via agenda, but I was curious if there
> was also a way to do it on a group of headlines from the buffer
> itself. In various google strategies, it looked like the answer was
> no.
>
> This is just a random file (making a camping packing/shopping list),
> so to do it via the way that seemed apparent was:
>
> C-c a
>> to restrict to the file
> s to conduct a "fake search" that would just give all the headlines in
> the buffer
> highlight region
> : to set tags
>
> It would have just been easier to C-space on a region and set them in
> groups right from the buffer. I sort of expected something like C-u
> C-c C-c to set region tags? Thinking about it, I suppose since these
> happened to be tagged with :export:, I could have done an M-x
> replace-string and appended my additional tag.
>
>
> Thanks!
> John
>
>

-- 
Nick