Search all `org-agenda-files'

Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Leo]

Dear All,

Have you ever wanted to retrieve some information from your org files
regarding some projects?

I wonder whether a command similar to `occur' but applies to all files
listed in `org-agenda-files' and their corresponding ARCHIVED files
might be desirable for org users.

Thank you for considering this proposal.

Regards,
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Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Bernt Hansen]

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> Have you ever wanted to retrieve some information from your org files
> regarding some projects?
>
> I wonder whether a command similar to `occur' but applies to all files
> listed in `org-agenda-files' and their corresponding ARCHIVED files
> might be desirable for org users.

It seems to me that grep works just fine for this application.  I put
all my org files under a single directory so that a single recursive
grep for a regexp over *.org and *.org_archive gets me the information I
want.  Then I use org to edit/read the files at the specific line
matches.

If you do this in org-mode do you only search files in org-agenda-files
(and maybe their archives?).  If you scatter files around a lot how do
you locate them all for the search?

$ find $HOME -name '*.org' -o -name '*.org_archive' | xargs grep -n -e $REGEXP

is probably simpler.

-Bernt

Re: Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Eddward DeVilla]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>  If you do this in org-mode do you only search files in org-agenda-files
>  (and maybe their archives?).  If you scatter files around a lot how do
>  you locate them all for the search?
>
>  $ find $HOME -name '*.org' -o -name '*.org_archive' | xargs grep -n -e $REGEXP
>
>  is probably simpler.

I have org-mode store my agenda file list in a separate file instead
of the .emacs.  So I can do something like:

      grep ^foo$ `cat ~/.agenda_files`

I can't say I've had the need to.

Edd

Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Jost Burkardt]

Hi Leo,

is

M-x org-occur-in-agenda-files 

what you are looking for?

> Dear All,
>
> Have you ever wanted to retrieve some information from your org files
> regarding some projects?
>
> I wonder whether a command similar to `occur' but applies to all files
> listed in `org-agenda-files' and their corresponding ARCHIVED files
> might be desirable for org users.
>
> Thank you for considering this proposal.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
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>
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Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Leo and others,

Internal commands for this in Org are:

1. multi-occur, a standard emacs command.  To apply it to the
   agenda files, call it through the agenda dispatcher, for me this
   is `C-c a /'.

   That does not include any archive files though.  To do so,
   get the new version from the git repo and do

    (setq org-agenda-text-search-extra-files '(agenda-archives))

2. You can also use search view, which is a new agenda view and allows  
you
   to search for multiple words and/or regexps which all need to match  
in an
   entry, not necessarily in a single line.  It searches for whole  
words, not
   partial words.  Hmm, maybe it should for partial words as well?

   C-c a S +word1 +word2 -excludethisword RET

   This also searched the extra files defined above.

- Carsten

On Apr 17, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Leo wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Have you ever wanted to retrieve some information from your org files
> regarding some projects?
>
> I wonder whether a command similar to `occur' but applies to all files
> listed in `org-agenda-files' and their corresponding ARCHIVED files
> might be desirable for org users.
>
> Thank you for considering this proposal.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> .:  Leo  :.  [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ]  .:  [ GPG Key: 9283AA3F ]  :.
>
>       Use the better alternative -- http://www.openoffice.org/
>
>
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Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:44 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> Hi Leo and others,
>
> Internal commands for this in Org are:
>
> 1. multi-occur, a standard emacs command.  To apply it to the
>  agenda files, call it through the agenda dispatcher, for me this
>  is `C-c a /'.
>
>  That does not include any archive files though.  To do so,
>  get the new version from the git repo and do
>
>   (setq org-agenda-text-search-extra-files '(agenda-archives))
>
> 2. You can also use search view, which is a new agenda view and  
> allows you
>  to search for multiple words and/or regexps which all need to match  
> in an
>  entry, not necessarily in a single line.  It searches for whole  
> words, not
>  partial words.  Hmm, maybe it should for partial words as well?
>
>  C-c a S +word1 +word2 -excludethisword RET

Sorry, this must be C-c a s

small "s".

- Carsten

Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Leo]

On 2008-04-18 04:44 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Internal commands for this in Org are:
>
[...]
>
> - Carsten

Great. Both are what I am looking for.

Thanks,
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Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Bernt Hansen]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> Internal commands for this in Org are:
>
> 1. multi-occur, a standard emacs command.  To apply it to the
>   agenda files, call it through the agenda dispatcher, for me this
>   is `C-c a /'.
>
>   That does not include any archive files though.  To do so,
>   get the new version from the git repo and do
>
>    (setq org-agenda-text-search-extra-files '(agenda-archives))
>

Great!  I learn more useful org-mode/Emacs commands everyday :)


> 2. You can also use search view, which is a new agenda view and allows
> you
>   to search for multiple words and/or regexps which all need to match
> in an
>   entry, not necessarily in a single line.  It searches for whole
> words, not
>   partial words.  Hmm, maybe it should for partial words as well?
>
>   C-c a S +word1 +word2 -excludethisword RET

    C-c a s +word1 +word2 -excludethisword RET
          ^
          lowercase 's'
>
>   This also searched the extra files defined above.

I tried this with the org-agenda-text-search-extra-files setting above
and it runs through each of my archives stating they don't exist.

    non-existent file todo.org_archive. [R]emove from list or [A]bort?

Maybe it's looking in the wrong directory?

Thanks for this.  I can see this will be really useful for digging up
my old notes in my (now huge) org files (and their archives) :-)

Regards,
Bernt

Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Joel J. Adamson]

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear All,
>
> Have you ever wanted to retrieve some information from your org files
> regarding some projects?
>
> I wonder whether a command similar to `occur' but applies to all files
> listed in `org-agenda-files' and their corresponding ARCHIVED files
> might be desirable for org users.

Try using ibuffer, filtering by name to files containing "org" or
whatever appropriate regex, then the command "O" will run something like
M-x occur.  You have to mark the files before you run O.

Joel

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Re: Search all `org-agenda-files'

[Mario Peter]

Bernt Hansen <bernt <at> norang.ca> writes:
[...]
> It seems to me that grep works just fine for this application.  I put
> all my org files under a single directory so that a single recursive
> grep for a regexp over *.org and *.org_archive gets me the information I
> want.  Then I use org to edit/read the files at the specific line
> matches.
> 
> If you do this in org-mode do you only search files in org-agenda-files
> (and maybe their archives?).  If you scatter files around a lot how do
> you locate them all for the search?
> 
> $ find $HOME -name '*.org' -o -name '*.org_archive' | xargs grep -n -e $REGEXP

for me coming from planner and muse it is useful to search in my old
repositories too. Assuming everything is under ~/org I can easygoing search: 

(defun mpe-org-grep (string)
  "Grep wrapper for searches in org hierarchy"
  (interactive "sOrg Search (regexp): ")
  (let ((grep-find-command "find ~/org/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -e grep -nHi
-e "))
      (grep (concat grep-find-command string))))

regards, Mario