Robert P. Goldman <rpgold...@sift.info> wrote: ... > > > Robert Goldman <rpgoldman <at> sift.info> 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. > > >> ...
Apologies for jumping in without the whole context (I'm buried with work and I have not been able to even read the whole thread). I'm not sure how to do #1 and #3 above, but I believe that #2 can be done with the mapping API (see section A.10 of the org manual) - something like this (untested and too simple as it stands - probably won't handle headlines without a todo keyword correctly): (org-map-entries (lambda () (org-todo "TODO")) t 'tree) but it may be worth a try. It may even be possible to extend it to do the other stuff. HTH, Nick _______________________________________________ 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
