From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Searching for tags or todo keywords Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:06:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1219411261.28705.1269971211@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8B62D5CA-840C-4464-A7DE-310209EB8FEA@uva.nl> <1221517845.24657.1274134637@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KfRq3-0001GN-FK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:06:55 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KfRq2-0001Ff-OV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:06:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41779 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KfRq2-0001FY-HC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:06:54 -0400 Received: from pony.ic.uva.nl ([145.18.40.181]:34306) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KfRq2-00025H-7i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:06:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1221517845.24657.1274134637@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Peter Westlake Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Peter Westlake wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:10:15 +0200, "Carsten Dominik" > 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