Re: Agenda Focus Mode - An Agenda Idea.

["Tim O'Callaghan" <tim.ocallaghan@gmail.com>]

On 05/09/07, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>
> On Sep 5, 2007, at 15:23, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > On 05/09/07, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
> >> Do you mean for interactive use, to be able to specify the regexp at
> >> the prompt?
> >> Or in an org-agenda-custom-command?
> >>
> >
> > I meant an org-agenda-custom-command,
>
> Check Appendix A5, near the end if it, there are examples on how to use
> `org-agenda-skip-function', and it includes the option to
> select on or against a regular expression.  You need something like
>
> (org-agenda-skip-function
>   '(org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'notregexp "^\\*+\\<Resolve\\>))
>
> Note that I have anchored the regexp at the beginning of the headline
> with
> "^\\*+", to make sure that it only matches in the headline and not
> somewhere
> in the tree.
>
Thanks, I shall play with this.

For the record, i did look at Appendix5, but notregexp was not
mentioned. Could you add it to the A5 Examples?

This is a close approximation to what i want to do, and should be
useful for focusing next actions. Checking Projects would require tag
inheritance i think.

>
> >  but it might be useful at the
> > command prompt.
>
> This is currently not possible.
>

Ok.

Tim.