Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Internal commands for this in Org are: > > 1. multi-occur, a standard emacs command. To apply it to the > agenda files, call it through the agenda dispatcher, for me this > is `C-c a /'. > > That does not include any archive files though. To do so, > get the new version from the git repo and do > > (setq org-agenda-text-search-extra-files '(agenda-archives)) >
Great! I learn more useful org-mode/Emacs commands everyday :) > 2. You can also use search view, which is a new agenda view and allows > you > to search for multiple words and/or regexps which all need to match > in an > entry, not necessarily in a single line. It searches for whole > words, not > partial words. Hmm, maybe it should for partial words as well? > > C-c a S +word1 +word2 -excludethisword RET C-c a s +word1 +word2 -excludethisword RET ^ lowercase 's' > > This also searched the extra files defined above. I tried this with the org-agenda-text-search-extra-files setting above and it runs through each of my archives stating they don't exist. non-existent file todo.org_archive. [R]emove from list or [A]bort? Maybe it's looking in the wrong directory? Thanks for this. I can see this will be really useful for digging up my old notes in my (now huge) org files (and their archives) :-) Regards, Bernt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode