Re: Delete duplicate subtrees?

[David Rogers]

Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:16 PM David Rogers 
> <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I've copied text from several different sources into an org
> > buffer, and now I find I have a large number of subtrees that 
> > are
> > exactly the same. All headlines are at the top level, so there 
> > are
> > no duplicates at different levels from each other - but there
> > *are* some where the headline matches but the contents don't
> > match. Is there an efficient way to delete all-but-one of the
> > exactly duplicate subtrees, but avoid deleting any whose 
> > contents
> > are different? (When the large number of exact duplicates are
> > gone, it will be easy for me to resolve the partial matches one 
> > by
> > one.)
>
> Maybe this will be useful to you.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-12/msg00626.html
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2018-01/msg00000.html
>
> You will have to modify the code since IIRC the linked code only
> matches by heading and not body.

After reading the discussion about the code you provided, it's 
clear to me that what I need is exactly what the "naysayers" were 
pointing out - something that definitely scans the full text, and 
maybe gives notice of what's being changed. I don't have the 
ability to correctly build in those kinds of things myself.

--
Thanks
David