I would like to use org-velocity as my primary means of navigating large .org files but with the following changes:
After running a search in org-velocity, I would like the buffer to automatically narrow to that subtree, once I make my selection.
Org-velocity should run its search against the entire file, even if the buffer is narrowed.
For part (1) I think something like this should work:
(add-hook 'org-follow-link-hook (lambda () (org-narrow-to-subtree)))
But this is not the right hook. Not sure how to approach (2). Any ideas? Thanks!
I am writing a partial answer for part (2) of the question since the following does not fit nicely into a comment. Note, that I do not use org-velocity. So, the following is not really tested.
save-restriction saves the current narrowing to the org-subtree and widen removes this narrowing temporarily during the search. To see exactly how it works read the help for the functions save-restriction and widen with C-h f and consult the info C-h i for elisp and there the Section "Advising functions".
(defadvice org-velocity (around search-all activate)
"Widen for search with org-velocity"
(save-restriction
(widen)
ad-do-it
))
Okay, I think I have a complete solution!
Make sure you have this fork of org-velocity installed:
https://github.com/Fuco1/org-velocity
Open your org-velocity.el file and replace lines 763-765 with this:
(progn
(with-current-buffer (org-velocity-match-buffer)
(kill-buffer-and-window))
(org-narrow-to-subtree)
(show-all))))))
The additional code tells org-velocity to first narrow the buffer to the selected subtree and secondly to expand that node.
Put this code somewhere in your search path (init.el, .emacs, etc.)
(defadvice org-velocity (around search-all activate)
"Widen for search with org-velocity"
(widen)
ad-do-it)
And that's it!
Thank you Tobias, Paul and Matúš for walking me through this!!
Take care,
-Adam
