Re: Configure Helm Source from org-tags-view

[Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>]

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Hi Jean,

Thank you - however, I can't get this function to return anything.

org-scan-tags accepts an action, a matcher and a todo-only.

Code:

(org-scan-tags 'agenda ;; Action
                      '(staff lambda (todo tags-list level)  ;; Matcher
                               (progn
                                    (setq org-cached-props nil)
                                    (or (and (member staff tags-list)))))
;; End Matcher
                       org--matcher-tags-todo-only) ;; Todo-only

* To my knowledge, the 'agenda is the action, and the list starting with
`(staff <snip>) is the matcher.
* Why does the tag I'm searching for ("staff") appear as the first "atom"
in the
"matcher" parameter?  Why isn't it just a lambda?
* I don't quite understand what the "or" and "and" are doing.  It seems like
I don't need either of them.

My org-agenda-files contains files and I have a headline with the tag
"staff"
- no quotes, and the function's not returning anything.

Thanks,
--Nate


On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 2:13 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

> * Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> [2019-08-08 18:50]:
> > 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.
>
> If tag is 'staff, this below will give structure out:
>
> (org-scan-tags 'agenda '(staff lambda (todo tags-list level) (progn
> (setq org-cached-props nil) (or (and (member staff tags-list)))))
> org--matcher-tags-todo-only)
>
> Now `org-scan-tags` could be inspected if it constructs some lists,
> alist, that are somewhat nicer than such output.
>
> But that output can be converted to HELM completion.
>
> Jean
>

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