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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: evita moreno <evitamoreno80@live.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode and searching for multiple occurances
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:20:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqa4kct0.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SNT111-W3104C08D5800D7E9E4C7DDD04F0@phx.gbl> (evita moreno's message of "Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:34:36 +0000")

evita moreno <evitamoreno80@live.com> writes:

> 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!

You can use org-search-view (C-c a s).

Best,
Matt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-10 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-10 15:34 Org-mode and searching for multiple occurances evita moreno
2010-02-10 15:46 ` Stephan Schmitt
2010-02-10 21:20 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2010-02-11  9:45   ` Stephan Schmitt
2010-02-11 10:09     ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-02-11 12:08       ` Matthew Lundin

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