* [code] Small elisp snippet to search among toplevel headlines in a file
@ 2012-02-04 18:29 Marc-Oliver Ihm
2012-02-05 4:03 ` Jude DaShiell
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marc-Oliver Ihm @ 2012-02-04 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw
To: emacs-orgmode
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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* Re: [code] Small elisp snippet to search among toplevel headlines in a file
2012-02-04 18:29 [code] Small elisp snippet to search among toplevel headlines in a file Marc-Oliver Ihm
@ 2012-02-05 4:03 ` Jude DaShiell
2012-02-06 6:46 ` Leo Alekseyev
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jude DaShiell @ 2012-02-05 4:03 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Marc-Oliver Ihm; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
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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* Re: [code] Small elisp snippet to search among toplevel headlines in a file
2012-02-05 4:03 ` Jude DaShiell
@ 2012-02-06 6:46 ` Leo Alekseyev
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Leo Alekseyev @ 2012-02-06 6:46 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Marc-Oliver Ihm; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Another possible way to do it might be to create a wrapper around
org-goto with alternative interface where you set org-goto-max-level
to 1. I've been using org-goto (alt. interface) with ido mode for a
while, and it's great (although I haven't tried restricting headlines
to just the top level).
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> 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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> Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net>
> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>
>
>
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