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From: Mueen Nawaz <mueen@nawaz.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Question about searches (ultimately for agenda)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:57:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hg9era$e8h$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)

Hi,

In the docs (10.3.3 Matching tags and properties), I see ways to do tag 
searches that can also search TODO states.

Can I also search TODO levels? For example, in one file covered by the 
agenda, I use the usual DONE to denote done. In another, which is 
focused on simply stuff that I have borrowed/lent, I have RETURNED as my 
"DONE" state.

I occasionally apply tags to headings with the name of the person 
involved. So let's say that I've put :Jack: on some headings of items 
that have been lent and returned. But I also have :Jack: in my other 
.org files that are not about lending/borrowing.

I want to search for all headlines that have :Jack: in them, but exclude 
anything that is a "DONE" state - so exclude both DONE and RETURNED.

I know I can just do:
Jack-TODO="DONE"-TODO="RETURNED"

But I don't want to keep editing it as I change my DONE states or add 
more DONE states.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-12-16  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-16  1:57 Mueen Nawaz [this message]
2009-12-16  3:26 ` Question about searches (ultimately for agenda) Matt Lundin
2009-12-16  3:35   ` Mueen Nawaz
2009-12-16  9:37     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-12-17  4:53       ` Mueen Nawaz
2009-12-17 19:26         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-12-19  4:35           ` Mueen Nawaz
2009-12-20 12:51             ` Carsten Dominik
2009-12-16 12:02     ` Matt Lundin

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