Re: Simple copy/paste of an agenda TODO list

[Martin Leduc <ldcmrtn@gmail.com>]

On 2016-01-08 05:09 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Martin Leduc <ldcmrtn@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 2016-01-08 10:40 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:
>>> Martin Leduc <ldcmrtn@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello orgers,
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering how to do a simple copy/paste of a todo list from
>>>> org-mode. For instance, when I'm producing the list of all my TODOs
>>>> with C-c a t, and then filtering it using a given tag, how can I
>>>> simply copy and paste the resulting TODO list from the "Org Agenda"
>>>> buffer into another one (e.g. scratch) ? I tried to simply select and
>>>> copy, but then yanking into another buffer results in an un-filtered
>>>> list of many TODOs (which is nearly the same as the first one
>>>> constructed from C-c a t, but excludes all TODOs that appear before
>>>> the first entry retained by the filter). I also tried with
>>>> org-copy-visible, but still no success.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody could explain me how to do this simple task ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> C-x C-w (bound to org-agenda-write).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for your response Nick, with the new org 8.3.3,
>> org-agenda-write does nearly the what I want: it selects the right
>> filtered list of TODOs. However, it exports all TODO's subtrees, while
>> I want to copy only the list of TODOs as it appears in the agenda
>> view. Any other ideas ?
>
> C-h f org-agenda-write RET says:
>
> ,----
> | If the extension is .org, collect all subtrees
> | corresponding to the agenda entries and add them in an .org file.
> `----
>
> so IIUC, all you have to do is use a file name that does not have
> a .org extension.
>
> --
> Nick
>
>
>
As simple as that ;) Thank you.