Re: Archive subtree with parent structure

[Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>]

Hi Florian,

Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de> writes:

> is it possible to org-archive-subtree a subtree and keep the entire
> parent structure? e.g.
>
> * A
> ** AA
> ** AB
> ** AC
>
>
> AB will be archived to:
>
> * A
> ** AB

No, but each subtree can contain an :ARCHIVE: property that will help
you come close to this.

For example:

* A
  :PROPERTIES:
  :ARCHIVE: basement_archive::* A
  :END

** AA
** AB
** AC

then C-c $ on AA AB and AC will archive them under the * A subtree
of the basement_archive file.

> Another question, just out of interest: Why is there
> org-archive-subtree-default at all? According to documentation and
> source it just calls the function in org-archive-default-command:
>
> (defun org-archive-subtree-default ()
>   "Archive the current subtree with the default command.
> This command is set with the variable `org-archive-default-command'."
>   (interactive)
>   (call-interactively org-archive-default-command))
>
> Isn't the emacs way to rather just set org-archive-subtree to another
> function or rebind the key?

The reasoning here is that the user wants to customize
`org-archive-default-command' and still use C-c C-x C-a to archive.
It would not be practical to force him create new keybindings.

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien