Re: Month-week and quarter-week datetrees (RFC and package announcement)

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> writes:

> Does `org-element-cache-map' traverse elements in the order they're in
> the buffer?  That is something we need for this.

Yes, it does.
You can even edit buffer along the way.
`org-element-cache-map' combines regexp search and parser cache trying
to be as fast as possible.

> On my working branch I have an earlier commit that implements many of
> the improvements here but using the old regexp search way instead of the
> org-element way.  Would it be worth reverting to that point?
> Specifically, the new `org-datetree-find-create-entry' that allows for
> nested years/quarters/months/weeks/days is still pretty straightforward
> to implement in the regexp approach.  The more general
> `org-datetree-find-create-hierarchy' (that allows elisp hackers to build
> new kinds of datetrees) might be trickier without org-element, but we
> could also defer that for future work.

I believe that `org-element-cache-map' should be good enough to do
everything.

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