Re: [O] Minning Org-files

[John Kitchin]

sure, if you make an interactive function that takes a search argument.
Something like this

(defun some-name (search-arg)
 (interactive "sQuery: ")
 ; insert code below and change "TODO=\"DONE\"" to search-arg
 )


Doyley, Marvin M. writes:

> Is there anyway of making the search term a variable ?
>
>> On Oct 9, 2015, at 1:24 PM, John Kitchin <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> You can do something like this:
>>
>> By TODO keyword to grab the DONE entries.
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>> (let ((entries (org-map-entries
>>                (lambda ()
>>                  (save-restriction
>>                    (org-narrow-to-subtree)
>>                    (buffer-string)))
>>                "TODO=\"DONE\"")))
>>  (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "new"))
>>  (org-mode)
>>  (mapcar 'insert entries))
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>>
>>
>> Doyley, Marvin M. writes:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I have a huge org-file with notes I have taken on various topics (my 
>>> commonplace org file). Is there an easy way to grab all the entires with a 
>>> given tag or keyword to a new org-file ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> M
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Marvin Doyley Ph.D.
>>> University of Rochester
>>> Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>>> Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
>>> 333 Hopeman Engineering Building
>>> Rochester NY 14627
>>
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