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From: Marc-Oliver Ihm <marc-oliver.ihm@online.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [code] Small elisp snippet to search among toplevel headlines in a file
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:29:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jgjtes$pvv$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)

Hello,

I have one big org-file for a lot of smaller projects,
each of them represented by a toplevel item.

And I have difficulties finding them quickly:
In most cases I know a buzzword from the headline;
however, if I do a search-forward I normally find
some other text within the body of an unrelated project
further above in the file; and only after several
repetitions of search I find the toplevel heading
(i.e. the project) I was looking for.

To make it easier to search only among toplevel headings
(i.e. among the the titles of my projects),
I wrote this small piece of elisp,
which lives in my initialization-file (e.g. .emacs):

(define-key org-mode-map
   [(f11)]
   (lambda () (interactive)
     (progn
       (occur (concat "^\\* .*"
                      (read-from-minibuffer
                       "Occur for toplevel headlines containing: "))
              nil)
       (pop-to-buffer "*Occur*")
       (use-local-map (copy-keymap (current-local-map)))
       (local-set-key (kbd "RET")
                      (lambda () (interactive)
                        (progn
                          (occur-mode-goto-occurrence)
                          (delete-other-windows)))))))


To find a project I just press f11 (please choose your own key) and
enter a keyword to do an occur for this keyword. Normally several toplevel
headings are found and the right one is chosen by typing return.

I hope, that someone might find this useful too.

with kind regards, Marc-Oliver Ihm

next             reply	other threads:[~2012-02-04 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-04 18:29 Marc-Oliver Ihm [this message]
2012-02-05  4:03 ` [code] Small elisp snippet to search among toplevel headlines in a file Jude DaShiell
2012-02-06  6:46   ` Leo Alekseyev

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