From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: "Robert P. Goldman" <rpgoldman@sift.info>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:21:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10122.1255299688@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> of "Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:10:39 -0000." <loom.20091011T180334-590@post.gmane.org>
Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:
...
> > > Robert Goldman <rpgoldman <at> sift.info> writes:
> > >
> > >> Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> > >>> org-mode files are plain text. M-% to do a replacement: once you've
> > >>> entered your search term and its replacement, hit ! to replace all
> > >>> without question.
> > >>
> > >> Yes, one can do this, but note that it's not entirely a no-brainer. You
> > >> need to:
> > >>
> > >> 1. clear all the check boxes and then recompute all checkbox counts in
> > >> the region. [this isn't a simple tag replacement]
> > >>
> > >> 2. replace all non-TODO keywords with TODO. This is a replacement, but
> > >> not a simple one to do with M-%
> > >>
> > >> 3. Wipe out all of the notes that were added with state changes.
> > >> Again, this can be done with a replacement command, but it's not a
> > >> trivial one.
> > >>
> > >> This is one of those cases where automating a task will not pay back the
> > >> investment (at least not to me, individually), so I think I'd better
> > >> just do it by hand.
> > >>
...
Apologies for jumping in without the whole context (I'm buried with work
and I have not been able to even read the whole thread). I'm not sure
how to do #1 and #3 above, but I believe that #2 can be done with the
mapping API (see section A.10 of the org manual) - something like this
(untested and too simple as it stands - probably won't handle headlines
without a todo keyword correctly):
(org-map-entries (lambda () (org-todo "TODO")) t 'tree)
but it may be worth a try. It may even be possible to extend it to do
the other stuff.
HTH,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-11 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 21:28 "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree Robert Goldman
2009-10-09 23:43 ` Andrew Stribblehill
2009-10-10 17:23 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2009-10-10 17:47 ` Robert Goldman
2009-10-11 9:47 ` Paul Mead
2009-10-11 12:36 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-10-11 16:10 ` Robert P. Goldman
2009-10-11 16:46 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-10-11 22:21 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2009-10-12 12:39 ` Robert Goldman
2009-10-12 12:46 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-10-11 15:11 ` Gregory J. Grubbs
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