org-search-view

org-search-view is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in `org-agenda.el'.


(org-search-view &optional TODO-ONLY STRING EDIT-AT)

Show all entries that contain a phrase or words or regular expressions.

With optional prefix argument TODO-ONLY, only consider entries that are
TODO entries. The argument STRING can be used to pass a default search
string into this function. If EDIT-AT is non-nil, it means that the
user should get a chance to edit this string, with cursor at position
EDIT-AT.

The search string can be viewed either as a phrase that should be found as
is, or it can be broken into a number of snippets, each of which must match
in a Boolean way to select an entry. The default depends on the variable
`org-agenda-search-view-always-boolean'.
Even if this is turned off (the default) you can always switch to
Boolean search dynamically by preceding the first word with "+" or "-".

The default is a direct search of the whole phrase, where each space in
the search string can expand to an arbitrary amount of whitespace,
including newlines.

If using a Boolean search, the search string is split on whitespace and
each snippet is searched separately, with logical AND to select an entry.
Words prefixed with a minus must *not* occur in the entry. Words without
a prefix or prefixed with a plus must occur in the entry. Matching is
case-insensitive. Words are enclosed by word delimiters (i.e. they must
match whole words, not parts of a word) if
`org-agenda-search-view-force-full-words' is set (default is nil).

Boolean search snippets enclosed by curly braces are interpreted as
regular expressions that must or (when preceded with "-") must not
match in the entry. Snippets enclosed into double quotes will be taken
as a whole, to include whitespace.

- If the search string starts with an asterisk, search only in headlines.
- If (possibly after the leading star) the search string starts with an
exclamation mark, this also means to look at TODO entries only, an effect
that can also be achieved with a prefix argument.
- If (possibly after star and exclamation mark) the search string starts
with a colon, this will mean that the (non-regexp) snippets of the
Boolean search must match as full words.

This command searches the agenda files, and in addition the files listed
in `org-agenda-text-search-extra-files'.