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
