From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sparse trees and searching for multiple words
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:46:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrqe1oms.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100919T104229-370@post.gmane.org> (Tom's message of "Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:48:25 +0000 (UTC)")
Tom <levelhalom@gmail.com> writes:
> I see sparse trees can be constructed by searching for a regexp, but I
> can't find the same ability for multiple searches.
>
> For example, I'd like to see entries which contains the words 'cat' and
> 'dog' in any order. Or 'apple', 'orange', 'melon', 'plum' and 'pear'
> in any order.
>
> Searching for multiple keywords in a single operation is a pretty
> basic feature. I recommend adding it if currently there is no way to
> do it in org.
For such searches, I use org-search-view:
C-c a s +cat +dog [RET]
This will pull up the headlines for all entries that contain the
substrings cat and dog in any order.
By default, org-search-view treats the entry as a single substring if
there are no plus or minus signs. E.g.,
C-c a s cat dog [RET]
...will find only those entries that have the precise string "cat dog".
For searches more like Google's (i.e., lazy booleans), you can set the
variable org-agenda-search-view-always-boolean to t. Then, a search such
as:
C-c a s cat dog [RET]
...will find all entries that have the words cat and dog in any order.
,----[ C-h v org-agenda-search-view-always-boolean ]
| When this is non-nil, the string will be split on whitespace, and each
| snippet will be searched individually, and all must match in order to
| select an entry.
`----
If you want to force "cat" and "dog" to match full words only, you can
set the variable org-agenda-search-view-force-full-words to t.
Best,
Matt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-22 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-19 8:48 Sparse trees and searching for multiple words Tom
2010-09-21 17:20 ` Ilya Shlyakhter
2010-09-21 22:14 ` Scot Becker
2010-09-22 2:46 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
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