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Re: [O] How to find the headline matching a string


From: Chris Poole
Subject: Re: [O] How to find the headline matching a string
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 17:51:18 +0100

Eric Abrahamsen:
the `org-map-entries' function can be given a scope of 'agenda

That worked perfectly, thanks. Here's what I ended up with:

(org-map-entries (lambda ()
                           (when (equal title (org-get-heading t t))
                             (org-entry-put (point) "TODO" "DONE")))
                         tag 'agenda)


Cheers,
Chris



On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
Chris Poole <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Suppose I have a string, "my first task", that I know is tagged with
> "laptop".
>
> I want to search through the agenda files for a headline that matches
> this string, to be able to mark it as DONE (in an automated fashion).
>
> I can't find a function to search through for the headline --- is
> there one?
>
> Else, is it best to concat all the agenda files into a larger buffer,
> then parse the buffer and iterate through the headlines with
> org-element-map?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris

Depending on how automated you need this to be, the `org-map-entries'
function can be given a scope of 'agenda (see its docstring). You could
call it with the agenda scope and a matcher for the "laptop" tag -- that
would at least get you all the headings in all the agenda files with the
"laptop" tag. Then the actual mapping function could call
`org-get-heading' on each of the matching headings, and check the text.

In these cases, though, I generally try to find a way to know the
heading's ID property, and use `org-id-goto'.

Hope that helps,
Eric




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