How to get a list of todos with no TAGS

How to get a list of todos with no TAGS

[Rainer Stengele]

In order to find TODOs where I forgot to add a TAG:

How to get the list of all todos with no TAGS?


Rainer

Re: How to get a list of todos with no TAGS

[Bastien]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:

> How to get the list of all todos with no TAGS?

In-file view:
 `C-c C-v' runs the command org-show-todo-tree.

Agenda view:
 `C-c a t' lists all TODO entries.

-- 
Bastien

Re: How to get a list of todos with no TAGS

[Rainer Stengele]

Bastien schrieb:
> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
> 
>> How to get the list of all todos with no TAGS?
> 
> In-file view:
>  `C-c C-v' runs the command org-show-todo-tree.
> 
> Agenda view:
>  `C-c a t' lists all TODO entries.
> 

C-c a t does not show a todo without a tag.
I checked the customised org-variables and could not find why.

Re: Re: How to get a list of todos with no TAGS

[Bastien]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:

> C-c a t does not show a todo without a tag.

My fault.  Its job is to show all TODO entries.

This custom command will list all TODO entries (matching "TODO" as a
TODO keyword) with no tags:

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("x" todo "TODO"
	 ((org-agenda-skip-function
	   (lambda nil
	     (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'regexp ":[[:alnum:]:_@]+:[ \t]*")))
	  (org-agenda-overriding-header "TODO entries with no tags: ")))))

Try it with `C-c a x'.

-- 
Bastien

Re: How to get a list of todos with no TAGS

[Rainer Stengele]

Bastien schrieb:
> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
> 
>> C-c a t does not show a todo without a tag.
> 
> My fault.  Its job is to show all TODO entries.
> 
> This custom command will list all TODO entries (matching "TODO" as a
> TODO keyword) with no tags:
> 
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>       '(("x" todo "TODO"
> 	 ((org-agenda-skip-function
> 	   (lambda nil
> 	     (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'regexp ":[[:alnum:]:_@]+:[ \t]*")))
> 	  (org-agenda-overriding-header "TODO entries with no tags: ")))))
> 
> Try it with `C-c a x'.
> 

Thank you first of all - but:

it does not work: these todos for example do not show:

*** TODO empty TODO
*** TODO [#A]  [Dongleproblem]: CV070907_002 V07.14 und CV070829_005

Re: Re: How to get a list of todos with no TAGS

[Bastien]

Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:

> Thank you first of all - but:
>
> it does not work: these todos for example do not show:
>
> *** TODO empty TODO
> *** TODO [#A]  [Dongleproblem]: CV070907_002 V07.14 und CV070829_005

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("x" todo "TODO"
         ((org-agenda-skip-function
          (lambda nil
           (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'regexp ":[[:alnum:]:_@]+:[ \t]*$"))
          (org-agenda-overriding-header "TODO entries with no tags: "))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Small typo.  Just add the "$" at the end of the regexp.

--
Bastien

Re: How to get a list of todos with no TAGS

[Rainer Stengele]

Bastien schrieb:
> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
> 
>> Thank you first of all - but:
>>
>> it does not work: these todos for example do not show:
>>
>> *** TODO empty TODO
>> *** TODO [#A]  [Dongleproblem]: CV070907_002 V07.14 und CV070829_005
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>       '(("x" todo "TODO"
>          ((org-agenda-skip-function
>           (lambda nil
>            (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'regexp ":[[:alnum:]:_@]+:[ \t]*$"))
>           (org-agenda-overriding-header "TODO entries with no tags: "))))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Small typo.  Just add the "$" at the end of the regexp.
> 
> --
> Bastien
> 
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perfect, thank you!

My fault:

I started with the wrong TODO keyword, only looking after the search string ...

Until now every time I needed something more org-mode provides it already - if only in the next
version ... great tool.


Rainer

Re: Re: How to get a list of todos with no TAGS

[Carsten Dominik]

An alternative might be:

Do a TAGS search with the match

-{.}/!

The first part -{.} means to exclude all headline where any tag matches
the regular expression ".", i.e. it will exclude all headlines that do 
have
a tag at all (beware of tag inheritance for this, this will exclude also
headline that *inherit* a tag.)

The "!" after the slash means the headline has to be a TODO to be 
listed.

Even shorter, use the TODO/TAGS search (`C-c a M' instead of `C-c a m').
Then the TAG matcher "-{.}" would be enough already.

- Carsten

On Sep 7, 2007, at 17:54, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> Bastien schrieb:
>> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
>>
>>> Thank you first of all - but:
>>>
>>> it does not work: these todos for example do not show:
>>>
>>> *** TODO empty TODO
>>> *** TODO [#A]  [Dongleproblem]: CV070907_002 V07.14 und CV070829_005
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>>       '(("x" todo "TODO"
>>          ((org-agenda-skip-function
>>           (lambda nil
>>            (org-agenda-skip-entry-if 'regexp ":[[:alnum:]:_@]+:[ 
>> \t]*$"))
>>           (org-agenda-overriding-header "TODO entries with no tags: 
>> "))))))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Small typo.  Just add the "$" at the end of the regexp.
>>
>> --
>> Bastien
>>
>>
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>>
> perfect, thank you!
>
> My fault:
>
> I started with the wrong TODO keyword, only looking after the search 
> string ...
>
> Until now every time I needed something more org-mode provides it 
> already - if only in the next
> version ... great tool.
>
>
> Rainer
>
>
>
>
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>

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