Re: [O] headline navigation and refiling.

[Carsten Dominik]

On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Tom wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Not a part of org, but I think this occur based library is brilliant:
>>> <http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/org-occur-goto.el>
>> 
>> This is good and should be part of Org-mode.  Anyone knows who wrote this?
>> 
> 
> I wrote it, but this shouldn't be the part of Org, because it's a
> hack and I don't want to deal with copyright papers either
> for such a trivial package (I've written it in half an hour, so
> it's not very hard to reimplement it).
> 
> It's a hack, because it should not use occur at all. Occur is
> line oriented and the search should be able to treat an org
> headline and its text as a single entity when searching.
> 
> So it should be reimplemented from the ground up properly with the
> same dynamic interface, so that results are shown immediately as the
> user is typing, but it should be able to support the same boolean
> logic as org-search-view, so one can make intelligent searches with
> it.
> 
> 
> For example, +dog +wag should find headings like this
> 
> * the usual behavior of dogs
> 
> they wag their tails
> 
> 
> And the search output should show the matching heading and below
> that that part of the text which is matching and if possible it
> should color the matches (like in the occur output), so in the
> above case it would show something like this (with _ indicating
> coloring):
> 
> * the usual behavior of _dogs_
> they _wag_ their tails
> 
> 
> That's the version org should have included.
Fair enough.

- Carsten

> 
> 
> 

- Carsten