From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Function to get the title of a heading
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:20:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <293B6330-1B33-4B70-B368-72A08175221F@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vvgs1un.fsf@gmail.com>
Hi Daniel,
I have added `org-heading-components'.
HTH
- Carsten
On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Daniel Clemente wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to get the title of some entry in Elisp. That is, from this
> heading:
>
> *** TODO Do something!
>
> I want the "Do something!".
>
>
> I know no function to do this; although there is probably one. What
> I found is:
>
> - (org-entry-properties) returns the TODO keyword, the tags, and
> the category, but not the title.
> - (org-get-entry) has no useful documentation but it seems to
> return the content, not the heading.
> - (org-get-header HEADER) does something else related to mail; it
> seems to be unused and not much documented.
> - (org-get-heading t) seems to return the full line (even with
> keyword), but with properties:
>
> #("TODO Do something!" 0 4
> (org-category "test1" fontified t face org-todo)
> 4 18
> (org-category "test1" fontified t face org-level-3))
>
>
> Based on this, I did a function to remove the TODO keyword and the
> properties.
>
> (defun org-get-heading-title ()
> "Returns the heading of the current entry as a string, without the
> leading stars, the TODO keyword or the tags."
> (let (
> (title-with-props (org-get-heading t))
> (keyword (org-get-todo-state))
> )
> (substring-no-properties title-with-props (if keyword (1+ (length
> keyword))))
> )
> )
>
> Suggestions:
> - This could also be implemented as a parameter to (org-get-heading).
> - Or the title returned in (org-entry-properties)
> - And (org-get-header HEADER) could be removed.
> - In any case, such a function can be included in Org-mode so that
> it is easy to find.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
>
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2009-01-06 18:53 Function to get the title of a heading Daniel Clemente
2009-01-08 22:20 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-01-11 17:08 ` Daniel Clemente
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