Hi all,
For my translation (work in progress) of Homer's Odyssey I am writing a long
descriptive
plain list which is a glossary of Homeric formulas (in Homer a 'formula' is a
passage that
is repeated exactly the same, or with slight variations, throughout the work: a
very
typical resource of traditional poems). This glossary helps me remember how I
have
translated a certain formula before. But it was a bit awkward for me having to
query the
list every time so I wrote a function which returns as a message the item
searched after
writing or marking a few words. I have redone a bit the code to give it a more
general
use, and I share it here, in case someone found useful or perhaps would like to
improve
it. The idea is to search in descriptive lists within sections containing the
tag :makealist:
(one list per section). And has more sense when the descriptive lists work as a
kind of
glossary.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq my-org/desc-plainlist-alist nil)
(defun my-org/search-desc-plainlist ()
(interactive)
(org-map-entries
(lambda ()
(save-restriction
(org-narrow-to-subtree)
(when
(re-search-forward "^- " nil t)
(beginning-of-line)
(mapc (lambda (el)
(add-to-list 'my-org/desc-plainlist-alist el))
(cdr (org-list-to-lisp))))))
"makealist")
(let ((element-re (if (region-active-p)
(buffer-substring-no-properties (region-beginning)
(region-end))
(read-from-minibuffer "Search in descriptive lists:
"))))
(setq my-org/desc-plainlist-candidate
(assoc-if
(lambda (x)
(string-match-p element-re x))
my-org/desc-plainlist-alist))
(message
(mapconcat 'identity
my-org/desc-plainlist-candidate ""))))
#+end_src
Best regards,
Juan Manuel
