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Subject: Re: [code] Small elisp snippet to search among toplevel headlines in
 a file
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:03:57 -0500 (EST)
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To: Marc-Oliver Ihm <marc-oliver.ihm@online.de>
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Another possible idea may be to write project titles in bold while on 
headlines.  That way all you need search for is the beginning of a line 
followed by a single * followed by a blank followed by the opening mark 
for bolding and if this is only done with project titles you got yourself 
an index.On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Marc-Oliver Ihm wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 

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