Re: Searching for tags or todo keywords

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>]

On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Peter Westlake wrote:

>
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:10:15 +0200, "Carsten Dominik"
> <dominik@science.uva.nl> said:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> as you have seen, changing the logic is not easy, for a number of
>> reasons. I would like to have parenthesis, but since the parsing is
>> done by string processing, any parenthesis in one of the search
>> strings would be difficult to handle.
>>
>> Some work-arounds:
>>
>> 1. Have you thought about using a sparse tree?  Or is you stuff in
>>   different files?
>
> All the things I'm interested in for this are in one file, so that  
> would
> work. It would need a regexp that duplicated some of the logic to  
> match
> todos and tags, I guess.

No, there are many ways to build a sparse tree, and one is a tags  
query.  This is
on `C-c / T' (or, if you have an old version, maybe on `C-c \'.

>
>
>> 2. You could use categories to mark the entries.  Basically make each
>>   project its own category.
>
> Yes, that's a definite possibility.
>
>> 3. Have you tried follow mode in the agenda?  Then you will always
>>   see, in another window, the embedding of the entry you are
>>   looking at.
>
> Yes, or just hitting Space. This works nicely, thanks!
>
> Another thing I've done is to add a TODO type called PROJECT. That  
> also
> makes it easy to put projects at different levels in the tree, which  
> is
> good because I have a huge file of things to do that I had been  
> keeping
> in outline-mode, and this is a lot easier than moving all the
> project-type subtrees to level 2.

Yes, I have the same thing in my setup.

- Carsten