Tutorial on advanced searches

Tutorial on advanced searches

[Matt Lundin]

These days I find myself frequently searching a mountainous pile of org
files. To clarify my own understanding of Org-mode's powerful search
tools, I wrote a tutorial on "advanced searches". It's available on
Worg:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.php

I hope the tutorial proves useful. If nothing else, I'd like to bring
some attention of one of Org-mode's hidden gems: C-c a s
(org-search-view).

Since Worg is in perpetual beta, any suggestions or comments would, of
course, be greatly appreciated!

Best,
Matt

Re: Tutorial on advanced searches

[Samuel Wales]

Excellent.  Thorough.

I'd point out that "..." will not match if there are newlines in the
matched text (though perhaps it should, if possible, a la google).

Re: Tutorial on advanced searches

[Carsten Dominik]

Wow, Matt, this is awesome.

Thanks!

- Carsten

On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:03 AM, Matt Lundin wrote:

>
> These days I find myself frequently searching a mountainous pile of  
> org
> files. To clarify my own understanding of Org-mode's powerful search
> tools, I wrote a tutorial on "advanced searches". It's available on
> Worg:
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.php
>
> I hope the tutorial proves useful. If nothing else, I'd like to bring
> some attention of one of Org-mode's hidden gems: C-c a s
> (org-search-view).
>
> Since Worg is in perpetual beta, any suggestions or comments would, of
> course, be greatly appreciated!
>
> Best,
> Matt
>
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- Carsten

Re: Tutorial on advanced searches

[Achim Gratz]

Hi Matt,

all I can say is just "yow!".

Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
> Since Worg is in perpetual beta, any suggestions or comments would, of
> course, be greatly appreciated!

You might want to consider scheduling the big event for next year, not
past January.
:-)


Achim.
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Re: Tutorial on advanced searches

[Manish]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Matt Lundin wrote:
>
> These days I find myself frequently searching a mountainous pile of org
> files. To clarify my own understanding of Org-mode's powerful search
> tools, I wrote a tutorial on "advanced searches". It's available on
> Worg:
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.php
>
> I hope the tutorial proves useful. If nothing else, I'd like to bring
> some attention of one of Org-mode's hidden gems: C-c a s
> (org-search-view).

Indeed.  Even a simple use of C-c a s on my notes file has saved me
countless times.

Thanks for the impressive writeup.

-- 
Manish

Re: Tutorial on advanced searches

[Eric S Fraga]

Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> These days I find myself frequently searching a mountainous pile of org
> files. To clarify my own understanding of Org-mode's powerful search
> tools, I wrote a tutorial on "advanced searches". It's available on
> Worg:
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/advanced-searching.php

Fantastic document!  Many thanks.  Although I use a few of the
techniques you illustrate, I had no idea of how many different ways of
searching there are.
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