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Re: [O] [PATCH] Implement history facility for org-occur searches
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suvayu ali |
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Re: [O] [PATCH] Implement history facility for org-occur searches |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:46:07 +0200 |
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Carsten Dominik
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 10.10.2011, at 09:47, suvayu ali wrote:
>>
>> My use case was to easily traverse through a sequence of sparse-tree
>> searches. Something that I thought might be useful when searching in a
>> large file. My implementation is probably very suboptimal. I was
>> hoping to find a way to take a "snapshot" of a sparse tree view, and
>> then "undo" or "redo" a sparse tree view. By undo/redo I mean
>> restoring the visibility states of the trees and the highlighted
>> search text. However I couldn't find a way to get the "snapshot", so I
>> tried repeating the searches to achieve a similar result.
>
> We do have support for storing and setting outline visibility:
>
> Take a look at the functions
>
> org-outline-overlay-data
> org-set-outline-overlay-data
>
> and at the macro
>
> org-save-outline-visibility
>
> which uses the two functions described above.
>
Thanks a lot for these pointers Carsten!
>
> OK, I will mark it rejected, feel free to come back when you have
> something convincing (not only for us, but also convincing for you!) :)
>
Will do. :)
> - Carsten
Cheers,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.