Re: A simple way to search only headlines

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> Thx Seb and Tassilo
>
> That's great ,i appreciate it!
>
> Seb, is there a way to quick bind a key to the above series of commands?

Just to add another method to search only headlines: use navi-mode.el

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| https://github.com/tj64/navi
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There is a tutorial on Worg:

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| http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-outside-org.html
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Using the 'org-outside-org.org' file of this tutorial as an example, if
you do (after installation of course)

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| (navi-search-and-switch)
| It is bound to M-s n.
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on this file, a (Occur like) *Navi* buffer pops up showing you the first
level headlines:

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| 3 matches for "^\* " in buffer: org-outside-org.org
|      15:* Introduction
|      46:* Org-mode everywhere
|     926:* Screencasts
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Typing '4' in the *Navi* buffer shows you the headlines up to level 4:

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| 30 matches for "^\*\*?\*?\*? " in buffer: org-outside-org.org
|      15:* Introduction
|      46:* Org-mode everywhere
|      50:** File Structuring
|      54:*** Orgstruct
|      94:*** Outline with Outshine
|      99:**** History and Credits
|     129:**** Installation
|     190:**** Outshine's fundamental idea
|     234:**** Fontification, Navigation and Structure Editing
|     285:** Subtree and Comment Editing
|     289:*** Introduction
|     308:*** Outorg
|     313:**** Introduction and Installation
|     337:**** Usage
|     392:**** Outorg vs Poporg
|     419:*** Poporg
|     428:**** Introduction
|     452:**** Installation
|     480:**** Usage
|     523:**** Known bugs
|     559:**** Caveats
|     590:**** History
|     614:**** Other tools
|     644:**** Python
|     711:** Remote Buffer Control
|     751:*** Navi-mode
|     756:**** About navi-mode
|     774:**** Installation
|     795:**** Usage
|     926:* Screencasts
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Since these headlines are the result of grep searches, they are *not*
folded outline (Org-mode) subtrees but just single lines of text, so you
can easily search them with the basic Emacs search commands (C-s and C-r
e.g.).

Of course you can do much more things in addition to searching
headlines. Just to give you two examples:

1. type 'E' in the *Navi* buffer and the buffer is put in *Navi-Edit*
mode, i.e.you can edit the headline in the *Navi* buffer and all edits
are immediately applied to the associated Org-mode file. This is perfect
for runnung Emacs keyboard macros only on the headlines of an Org-mode
(or outshine) buffer. Type 'C-c C-c' to go back to read-only *Navi*
mode.

2. with point on a headline in the *Navi* buffer, type 'e' and the
subtree at point will be offered for editing in a temporary Org-mode
buffer. This makes no sense for an .org file, of course, but is great
when you structure your source code files (e.g. Emacs Lisp files) with
headlines and use outshine.el, because then you can write all comment
sections in Org-mode instead of as outcommented text in a source code
buffer.

--
cheers,
Thorsten