Re: org-sparse-tree on region or subtree?

[Lee Hinman <hinman@gmail.com>]

Bernt & Suvayu,

Thanks.  Narrowing to subtree and then running org-sparse-tree worked great.

--
Lee

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> Lee Hinman <hinman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is it possible to run org-sparse-tree on a specific region or subtree of
>> an org file?
>>
>> I have an Org file with the following structure
>>
>> * 2010...
>> * 2011
>> ** 2011-01 January...
>> ** 2011-02 February
>> *** 2011-02-01 Tuesday
>> **** Alice
>> - Plain list item 1
>> - Plain list item 2
>> **** Bob
>> - Plain list item a
>> - Plain list item b
>> *** 2011-02-08 Tuesday
>> **** Alice
>> - Plain list item 3
>> - Plain list item 4
>> **** Bob
>> - Plain list item c
>> - Plain list item d
>>
>>
>> I'd like to be able to be able to run a command and see all the Alice
>> entries for 2011-02 February.  It seems like a sparse tree (with a regex
>> for Alice) on the 2011-02 February subtree would give me that.  But I
>> *think* org-sparse-tree uses org-occur which always starts at
>> point-min, but I could easily be mis-reading the code.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Narrow to subtree, then run org-sparse-tree normally, then widen maybe?
> --
> Bernt
>