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[Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree
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Paul Mead |
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[Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree |
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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:47:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Goldman <address@hidden> writes:
> Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
>> org-mode files are plain text. M-% to do a replacement: once you've
>> entered your search term and its replacement, hit ! to replace all
>> without question.
>
> Yes, one can do this, but note that it's not entirely a no-brainer. You
> need to:
>
> 1. clear all the check boxes and then recompute all checkbox counts in
> the region. [this isn't a simple tag replacement]
>
> 2. replace all non-TODO keywords with TODO. This is a replacement, but
> not a simple one to do with M-%
>
> 3. Wipe out all of the notes that were added with state changes.
> Again, this can be done with a replacement command, but it's not a
> trivial one.
>
> This is one of those cases where automating a task will not pay back the
> investment (at least not to me, individually), so I think I'd better
> just do it by hand.
>
> Thanks, everyone,
Have you thought about using yasnippet? I have a repeating set of TODOs
in a particular order that I have to do every month. Rather than reusing
the old structure, I just insert it again from a snippet. That way I
also have all my notes from last month too.
Paul
- [Orgmode] "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Robert Goldman, 2009/10/09
- Re: [Orgmode] "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Andrew Stribblehill, 2009/10/09
- Re: [Orgmode] "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira, 2009/10/10
- Re: [Orgmode] "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Robert Goldman, 2009/10/10
- [Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree,
Paul Mead <=
- [Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Bernt Hansen, 2009/10/11
- [Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Robert P . Goldman, 2009/10/11
- [Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Bernt Hansen, 2009/10/11
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Nick Dokos, 2009/10/11
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Robert Goldman, 2009/10/12
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Carsten Dominik, 2009/10/12
- [Orgmode] Re: "clearing" the state of an org-mode subtree, Gregory J. Grubbs, 2009/10/11