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Subject: Re: Question about org-search-view and org-occur-in-agenda-files
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suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Darlan,
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
> <darcamo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You can probably use custom agenda commands for this. See the documentation
>> for the org-agenda-custom-commands and the corresponding section in the
>> manual [1].
>
> Custom agenda commands do not support prompting for search phrases.
>
>> You can set the org-agenda-files and
>> org-agenda-text-search-extra-files to point to the old project for
>> some custom search.
>>

You can also restrict agenda to a single file with C-u C-c C-x <.
Subsequent agenda commands and searches will only use the current file
until you remove the restriction with C-c C-x >

-Bernt


>>
>
> However the above comment gave me an idea. I could use a custom function
> to wrap  around the search  functions and use let  to bind the  value of
> agenda-files and org-agenda-text-search-extra-files as needed.
>
> Thank you very much!