Re: A puzzle to solve: saved categories vs. tags

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> writes:

> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>
>> 1. Search for a regexp
>> 2. Search for a complex query
>> 3. Prompt interactively for a complex query
>> 4. Show all tagged entries
>> 5. Prompt for a specific tag
>> 6. Prompt for a specific tag (restricting to TODO entries)
>> 7. Show all TODO entries
>> 8. Prompt for a specific TODO
>> 9. Prompt for a specific TODO (restricting to tagged entries)
>
> I didn't see "Prompt for a specific property and value" in your list. 

This would be the interactive (maybe prefix) version of "search for a
complex query".

> Is this already possible using a complex query?

Re-quoting myself:

,----
| As you probable know, you can already perform complex searches like:
| 
|   C-c \ +Urgent-@Work+CATEGORY="code"/NEXT
| 
| This will search for headlines with the tag "Urgent", without the tag
| "@Work", with category "code" and which TODO keyword is "NEXT".  Yes,
| that's quite complex and I guess we sometime prefer not to care about
| the syntax of the query, but rather be prompted for it.
`----

Then to search for a specific pair of property-value:

C-c \ PROPERTY="value"

As for now "value" should be the exact string, not a regexp.

-- 
Bastien