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Re: [O] Finding LAST copy of a given headline in a file
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Suvayu Ali |
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Re: [O] Finding LAST copy of a given headline in a file |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:35:25 +0200 |
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:39:08PM -0700, Subhan Tindall wrote:
> Yes, you are correct, file+datetree does not do this. A while ago I
> suggested a file+datetree+headline type function be added, but it was not
> received well.
I tend to agree with that. Your case is a corner case I believe. We
can't keep on adding features which are not used widely. Specially
since file+function or function provides all the flexibility anyone
would ever want.
> I attempted a function for use with file+function, but couldn't get it
> quite working.
Can you provide your attempt? Maybe then others can point out what you
might be doing wrong.
> I'm not quite sure how to use org-map-entries to find headlines?
Given a scope, it iterates over all headlines to find a match. All the
matches are accumulated in a list and returned. You have to provide
your matching function to org-map-entries. Without putting much thought
into it, I would propose the following algorithm:
1. Call org-map-entries in the full buffer scope looking for the date
you want.
2. Once you have the entry corresponding to the date, limit scope to
subtree and call org-map-entries again, this time looking for the
specific "Ticket" you want to add to.
Following (2), the template should be added as a sibling.
Hope this helps,
PS: Could you please not top-post. It is difficult to follow threads if
you do.
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Suvayu
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