Chris Poole <li...@chrispoole.com> writes: > Hi all, > > Suppose I have a string, "my first task", that I know is tagged with > "laptop". > > I want to search through the agenda files for a headline that matches > this string, to be able to mark it as DONE (in an automated fashion). > > I can't find a function to search through for the headline --- is > there one? > > Else, is it best to concat all the agenda files into a larger buffer, > then parse the buffer and iterate through the headlines with > org-element-map? > > > Cheers, > Chris
Depending on how automated you need this to be, the `org-map-entries' function can be given a scope of 'agenda (see its docstring). You could call it with the agenda scope and a matcher for the "laptop" tag -- that would at least get you all the headings in all the agenda files with the "laptop" tag. Then the actual mapping function could call `org-get-heading' on each of the matching headings, and check the text. In these cases, though, I generally try to find a way to know the heading's ID property, and use `org-id-goto'. Hope that helps, Eric
