hello, I have been using orgmode for a while , and noticed that I can
find headings based on tags, but I haven't figured out whether there is
a way to say in emacs org-mode :
find me all the (lowest-level) headings [ or heading-paths ] that
contains text (whether formatted as source code blocks or whatever) that
matches, say three, (regexp) patterns, e.g. :
(M|m)artha
((buy|bought)[^\n]*milk(s?))
(pay|paid|USD)
How would one ask org-mode to find all such headings (in all opened
org-mode buffers , preferably :) )
I guess one could try to connect the three regexps with something like
a negative-lookahead "does not contain '\n\*'" string, like
(M|m)artha (:!\n\*){0} ((buy|bought)[^\n]*milk(s?)) (:!\n\*){0}
(pay|paid|USD) | \
(pay|paid|USD) (:!\n\*){0} (M|m)artha (:!\n\*){0}
((buy|bought)[^\n]*milk(s?)) | \
((buy|bought)[^\n]*milk(s?)) (:!\n\*){0} (M|m)artha (:!\n\*){0}
(pay|paid|USD) | \
(pay|paid|USD) (:!\n\*){0} (M|m)artha (:!\n\*){0}
((buy|bought)[^\n]*milk(s?)) | \
...
but that's just ugly. And would it work at all? Would it not be so
slow to make it impractical?
Or is there a way to say "search all headings for pattern1" in all
files, then filter the results by pattern2, then filter the results by
pattern3 ?? How? Someone surely must have done this before ...
thx!!
HJ