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From: Richard Lawrence <rwl@recursewithless.net>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
	Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to go to an Org headline programmatically?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:10:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1jsdobi.fsf@aquinas.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rbtk7s4.fsf@mbork.pl>

Hi Marcin,

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> I want to find an Org headline in Elisp.  No need to make it visible,
> for example - just move the point to the heading with a given title (it
> may even be within `save-excursion', as in "go there, do something, go
> back").  `org-link-search' seems to do what I want, but it does a lot
> more - is there some simpler function to do that?

Do any of

org-find-top-headline
org-find-exact-heading-in-directory
org-find-exact-headline-in-buffer

do what you want?

-- 
Best,
Richard


      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-07 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-06  4:01 How to go to an Org headline programmatically? Marcin Borkowski
2023-07-06  4:10 ` Samuel Wales
2023-07-07 10:10 ` Richard Lawrence [this message]

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