Re: Configure Helm Source from org-tags-view

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> Has anyone created a Helm source from the results of org-agenda?
>
> Specifically org-tags-view I think would be a cool Helm source to 
> configure where the headings that have certain tags could be displayed
> by Helm.
>
> I looked @ the code for org-tags-view and it's fairly straight forward - however, I think
> that the function itself is tightly coupled between finding the results and displaying the
> results.  In other words, there's no "easy" function that I see which would provide headings
> that match a tags search that I could use as a Helm source.
>
> I think I would need to copy quite a bit of code from org-tags-view into a different
> function to create a Helm source.  Am I missing something?
>
> Has anyone else done something similar?

That's what helm-org-rifle is for.  For example, later in the thread you
mentioned searching for a "staff" tag.  That would be very easy:

1.  M-x helm-org-rifle-agenda-files RET (I have it bound to a key).
2.  Type ":staff:".
3.  See results.