Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> i was wondering if anyone knew of a way to search for text only in
>> headlines and not the whole document? if not is it something one can
>> put a feature request for?
>
> Use regular expression search or isearch.  The latter would be:
>
>   C-u C-s \*+.*<your-search-prase>

Or, for a "pure" Org solution:

  C-c a < s *salsa dance

searches for terms appearing only *in the headline* (including tags).

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban