From: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
To: David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Delete duplicate subtrees?
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 21:59:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADbSrJwB7XgJ2Wd0cpUKdwi8vDhNbJjgAw_58UbRPiyO7+OuKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s0e8setc62b.fsf@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:16 PM David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I've copied text from several different sources into an org
> buffer, and now I find I have a large number of subtrees that are
> exactly the same. All headlines are at the top level, so there are
> no duplicates at different levels from each other - but there
> *are* some where the headline matches but the contents don't
> match. Is there an efficient way to delete all-but-one of the
> exactly duplicate subtrees, but avoid deleting any whose contents
> are different? (When the large number of exact duplicates are
> gone, it will be easy for me to resolve the partial matches one by
> one.)
Maybe this will be useful to you.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-12/msg00626.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2018-01/msg00000.html
You will have to modify the code since IIRC the linked code only
matches by heading and not body.
>
> --
> Thanks
> David
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-05 18:15 Delete duplicate subtrees? David Rogers
2020-08-05 21:59 ` Allen Li [this message]
2020-08-06 8:20 ` David Rogers
2020-08-07 1:07 ` David Rogers
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