Re: Org-mode and searching for multiple occurances

[Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Hello Evita,

you may want to try M-x org-occur:

> org-occur is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `org.el'.
> 
> (org-occur regexp &optional keep-previous callback)
> 
> Make a compact tree which shows all matches of regexp.
> The tree will show the lines where the regexp matches, and all higher
> headlines above the match.  It will also show the heading after the match,
> to make sure editing the matching entry is easy.
> If keep-previous is non-nil, highlighting and exposing done by a previous
> call to `org-occur' will be kept, to allow stacking of calls to this
> command.
> If callback is non-nil, it is a function which is called to confirm
> that the match should indeed be shown.

But this only shows the matching entries, it doesn't generate a list of the 
entries (like running a query on a database).

Hth,
	Stephan


Also sprach evita moreno:
> Hello to everyone!
> 
> I am a teacher trying to teach young people how to use org-mode for 
> writing. We have created a database with notes on literature review 
> outlined in org-mode in the following format:
> 
> * jones2000
> blah blah blah keyword1 keyword2
> *jones2007
> blah blah keyword2
> 
> and so on. I was wondering whether there is a way where one can search 
> for a keyword in the database (more than 350 papers up to now) and can 
> get in an automatic fashion in which of the jones' entries these 
> keywords occur (pretty much like using MS Access and running a query). 
> Is this possible? Maybe what I am asking for is outright 
> crazy/impossible but I thought I should give it a go!
> 
> Evita
> 
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