Thank you very much Matt, it was exactly what I was looking for! And thanks
to Matt for his prompt reply.
Just wondering, so there is (no way of | no point in) trying to execute the
org-match-sparse-tree programmatically, right?

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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

> >     On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Giacomo M <jackjackk@gmail.com>
> >     wrote:
> >
> >         Dear all,
> >         I would like, by pressing the speed command N, to be brought to
> >         the next NEXT headline. I can see that somehow the functions
> >         involved could be org-match-sparse-tree and next-error, but I
> >         don't know how to code a programmatic execution of the two
> >         (unfortunately I don't speak elisp very well) into a function
> >         that can then be specified in the org-speed-commands-user
> >         customization.
> >
> >         Is there anybody so kind to guide me to the (probably trivial)
> >         solution?
> >
>
> Giacomo M <jackjackk@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Sorry for having been ambiguous, I meant the next headline with a
> > "NEXT" todo keyword.
> > Thanks
>
> Here's a very quick hack/proof of concept. There's very likely a better
> way to do it. This is simply to illustrate the general idea.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun my-org-next-next ()
>   (interactive)
>   (forward-word)
>   (when (re-search-forward "\\*+\\s-+NEXT" nil t)
>     (org-reveal t))
>   (org-back-to-heading))
>
> (add-to-list 'org-speed-commands-user '("N" . (org-speed-move-safe
> 'my-org-next-next)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Best,
> Matt
>