On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> >
> > When I did that, it started with all of the headings closed.  If I'm
> looking
> > for something nested, it's VERY hard to use, or, I am doing something
> > wrong.  See how easy it is for you to find something at level 3, for
> > example.
>
> Use the arrow keys to navigate to the top level heading, hit TAB to
> expand the next level in that sub-tree, use the arrow keys again, hit
> TAB on the second level heading, and recurse...  I find this quite
> intuitive and easy to use.
>

TAB was the secret here.  I was using arrows, the right arrow, in
particular, to try to traverse the hierarchy.  With tab, it is now very
useful, except for aquamacs opening the help in another window.  I think I
need to go back to Emacs.app

>
> of course, this assumes you know the hierarchy (i.e. under which
> higher level headings your particular destination is to be found).  if
> you don't know the hierarchy, I would suggest doing an expansion of
> the whole file into the headings view (I can't remember what it is
> called but C-u TAB cycles through the different views) and search
> using C-s instead... remembering that you always have the full power
> of emacs at hand which is partly what makes org so powerful!  For
> example, you can also use
>
>  M-x occur RET
>
> to search for particular strings in the whole file.
>
> --
> Eric S Fraga
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