Extend results to more types

[CyberFox001]

OS/platform

GNU/Linux

Emacs version and provenance

Emacs 29.4, from Fedora repository

Org version and provenance

Org-mode 9.7.9, from GNU ELPA

org-ql package version and provenance

Org-ql 20240403.2027, from MELPA

Description

Today, Org-ql let user search for entries into multiple Org-mode files. Each entries is an Org-mode heading, that could be a note, a task or a document section.

This feature request is about extend the result to more types of results, like:

• Org-mode file
• Images
• Bloc of code
• Tables
• Or any element that could be named
• Links

This would let user search for other elements in files, like the schema they have done on another note with a PlantUML code block, or the image they have added to this other task. They could also search for Org-mode files, based on #+TITLE, #+AUTHOR or #+DATE values.

This feature could open possibilities for new features like:

• With a dynamic block, built a table of each Org-mode files present in a folder, sort them by date and show their author, date and their title as a link to the file (Can be useful to make the home page of a blog made with Org-mode)
• Copy an image or source code bloc from another note to the current one

Such feature is a big change, and it's maybe out of scope for Org-ql.

Etc.

No response

[alphapapa]

Hi,

These are interesting ideas, some of which have been considered and discussed before. In the long-term, I'm open to the possibility of expanding the scope of Org QL to do more things like this (e.g. searching lists, logbook entries, etc). In the short-term, some of those things are possible already since a query can call any function to return any kind of result desired. For example, see the implementation of the command org-ql-open-link.

Other than that, feel free to brainstorm in a discussion here, and please be specific when possible.

[CyberFox001]

Thank you for your answer.

I will take a look in org-ql-open-link.