Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2014-07-07 at 15:11, Nick Dokos wrote: >> Ken Mankoff <mank...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 2014-07-07 at 11:19, Nick Dokos wrote: >>>> John Durden <johndur...@yandex.com> writes: >>>> >>>>> Can you search directly for headlines in all agenda-files, with the >>>>> name of the headline, not tags? If so, how? If not, wouldn't this be >>>>> useful? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Try `s' in the agenda perhaps? >> >> Sorry, I meant `s' in the agenda dispatcher: >> >> C-c a s >> C-c a S >> > > I use the key combos you suggest all the time, but the OP wanted to just > search HEADLINES. Maybe the above methods work if you use regex and > exploit the fact that all headlines have "*" characters in them, but > this use of regex seems a bit overly complex. >
Yes, I understand that, but limiting the search space with C-c a s seems to me to be a good solution for keyword searching. If there are too many results, you can then do C-s of the same keyword in the resulting results buffer and step exactly through the headlines that match. It's not hard to write a more specialized tool either. I think an application of org-map-entries could easily do what the OP wanted (although the devil *will* be in the details). The question is whether it's worth it, or whether the current tools adequately meet the need. Nick
