searching properties, not tags

searching properties, not tags

[Christopher W. Ryan]

From what I have seen, most of the org-mode manual documentation about
searching or matching tags and properties is about the former, rather
than the latter. How would I search out all the headlines that have a
property of a certain value?  For example:

** Tigger
   :PROPERTIES:
   :species:  tiger
   :color:    striped
   :clothing: none
   :END:
** Eeyore
   :PROPERTIES:
   :species:  donkey
   :color:    grey
   :clothing: none
   :END:
** Winnie The Pooh
   :PROPERTIES:
   :species:  bear
   :color:    yellow
   :clothing: red shirt
   :END:

How would I search for all the tigers?

Thanks.

--Chris Ryan

Re: searching properties, not tags

[Bastien]

Hi Christopher,

"Christopher W. Ryan" <cryan@binghamton.edu> writes:

> How would I search for all the tigers?

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("o" "List of tigers"
	 ((tags "+species=\"tiger\")))))

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: searching properties, not tags

[Christopher W. Ryan]

Well, that put me on the right track. I wasn't looking for a persistent
custom search command, just one I could execute ad hoc, since sometimes
I'd be looking for tigers and sometimes for bears, etc.

But with this to go on, I found that

C-c a m species="tiger"

does what I want.

Previously, my problem was I was not using the quotes.

Thanks.

--Chris

Bastien wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> "Christopher W. Ryan" <cryan@binghamton.edu> writes:
> 
>> How would I search for all the tigers?
> 
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>       '(("o" "List of tigers"
> 	 ((tags "+species=\"tiger\")))))
> 
> HTH,
>