Fast way to jump to another specific heading?

Fast way to jump to another specific heading?

[Jan Böcker]

Hello,

at the moment I use one org-mode file per project and use ido.el's fuzzy 
search to quickly open the appropriate project file. However, this tends 
to clutter up my buffer list when I forget to kill buffers after using 
them.

I'd like to use only one file to store all my active projects and use 
ido.el to quickly jump to another project node ("project nodes" being 
defined as, say, all direct descendants of a particular top-level node).
Ideally, after jumping to the node, the outline would automatically be 
narrowed down to the target node.

Are there similar facilities already present in org-mode that I missed?

If not, I'd like to propose a new feature: take the results of a custom 
agenda view (as those allow us to define powerful searches), then feed the 
results to ido-mode or the standard emacs autocompletion for the user to 
select one to jump to.
Unfortunately, my elisp-fu (and knowledge of org-mode internals) is way 
too insufficient to implement something like that myself.

Jan

Re: Fast way to jump to another specific heading?

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Have you tried the org-refile interface? C-u C-c C-w lets you jump to
a heading using the same interface you get when refiling, so you can
customise it easily.

My org-refile config is:

(setq org-refile-targets '((org-agenda-files :maxlevel . 2))
      org-refile-use-outline-path 'file
      org-refile-target-verify-function
      (lambda ()
	(not (member "ARCHIVE" (org-get-tags)))))

This lets me go to whichever file I choose out of the list of agenda
files then up to two deep into the hierarchy, filtering out archived
sections. If you're sticking to one file, perhaps see if (setq
org-refile-use-outline-path t) is to your taste.

2009/8/13 Jan Böcker <lists.jan@jboecker.de>:
> Hello,
>
> at the moment I use one org-mode file per project and use ido.el's fuzzy
> search to quickly open the appropriate project file. However, this tends to
> clutter up my buffer list when I forget to kill buffers after using them.
>
> I'd like to use only one file to store all my active projects and use ido.el
> to quickly jump to another project node ("project nodes" being defined as,
> say, all direct descendants of a particular top-level node).
> Ideally, after jumping to the node, the outline would automatically be
> narrowed down to the target node.
>
> Are there similar facilities already present in org-mode that I missed?
>
> If not, I'd like to propose a new feature: take the results of a custom
> agenda view (as those allow us to define powerful searches), then feed the
> results to ido-mode or the standard emacs autocompletion for the user to
> select one to jump to.
> Unfortunately, my elisp-fu (and knowledge of org-mode internals) is way too
> insufficient to implement something like that myself.
>
> Jan
>
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Re: Fast way to jump to another specific heading?

[Matt Lundin]

Jan Böcker <lists.jan@jboecker.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> at the moment I use one org-mode file per project and use ido.el's
> fuzzy search to quickly open the appropriate project file. However,
> this tends to clutter up my buffer list when I forget to kill buffers
> after using them.
>
> I'd like to use only one file to store all my active projects and use
> ido.el to quickly jump to another project node ("project nodes" being
> defined as, say, all direct descendants of a particular top-level
> node).
> Ideally, after jumping to the node, the outline would automatically be
> narrowed down to the target node.
>
> Are there similar facilities already present in org-mode that I
> missed?

Have you tried the following with org-refile and org-goto?

(setq org-completion-use-ido t)

Best,
Matt

Re: Fast way to jump to another specific heading?

[Jan Böcker]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> Have you tried the org-refile interface?
This looks like what I need! I didn't think of refiling when looking for a 
way to navigate my outline.

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Matt Lundin wrote:
> Have you tried the following with org-refile and org-goto?
>
> (setq org-completion-use-ido t)

I tried, failed, then noticed that org-refile refuses to use ido if 
org-refile-use-outline-path is in use (the function 
org-olpath-completing-read in org.el explicitly sets this to nil, the 
comment says "does not work with ido").

I have now set org-refile-use-outline-path to nil, and org-refile-targets 
to only include my active projects; that works great!

Thanks a lot!

Jan