From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Directly search for Headlines?
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:24:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fviczwti.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m21ttxaqey.fsf@gmail.com
Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2014-07-07 at 15:11, Nick Dokos wrote:
>> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 2014-07-07 at 11:19, Nick Dokos wrote:
>>>> John Durden <johndurden@yandex.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Can you search directly for headlines in all agenda-files, with the
>>>>> name of the headline, not tags? If so, how? If not, wouldn't this be
>>>>> useful?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Try `s' in the agenda perhaps?
>>
>> Sorry, I meant `s' in the agenda dispatcher:
>>
>> C-c a s
>> C-c a S
>>
>
> I use the key combos you suggest all the time, but the OP wanted to just
> search HEADLINES. Maybe the above methods work if you use regex and
> exploit the fact that all headlines have "*" characters in them, but
> this use of regex seems a bit overly complex.
>
Yes, I understand that, but limiting the search space with C-c a s seems
to me to be a good solution for keyword searching. If there are too many
results, you can then do C-s of the same keyword in the resulting
results buffer and step exactly through the headlines that match.
It's not hard to write a more specialized tool either. I think an
application of org-map-entries could easily do what the OP wanted
(although the devil *will* be in the details). The question is whether
it's worth it, or whether the current tools adequately meet the need.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-07 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-07 14:06 Directly search for Headlines? John Durden
2014-07-07 15:19 ` Nick Dokos
2014-07-07 15:59 ` Ken Mankoff
2014-07-07 17:54 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-07-07 19:11 ` Nick Dokos
2014-07-07 19:58 ` Ken Mankoff
2014-07-07 21:24 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-07-08 21:01 ` Samuel Wales
2014-07-08 21:31 ` Ken Mankoff
2014-07-28 17:56 ` Fabrice Niessen
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