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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Get the text of a node
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:54:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e4vj0zf.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)

Hi all,

I was wondering if there's a way to programmatically get the text 
of a node in an Org buffer. Basically, I have a buffer that looks 
something like this:

#+BEGIN_SRC org
* Top header
** Subheader
   :PROPERTIES:
   :Custom_ID: some_id
   :END:

   Text starts here, possibly with additional subheaders
#+END_SRC

What I would like to extract is the text below "Subheader", but 
without the :PROPERTIES: block.

I've looked at the org-element library, but I haven't been able to 
figure out how to use it to extract just the plain text.

I use the :Custom_ID: property to find the relevant subheading and 
I know I can use (org-back-to-heading) to get point to the 
Subheader containing the relevant :PROPERTIES: block. Obviously, I 
could then narrow the buffer to the subheader, use a text search 
to move point past the line containing :END: and then extract the 
text from there until (point-max).

I'm just wondering if this may break in unexpected circumstances 
and whether there's a better way.

TIA

Joost



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Joost Kremers
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next             reply	other threads:[~2019-10-23 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-23  8:54 Joost Kremers [this message]
2019-10-23 17:01 ` Get the text of a node Jeff Filipovits
2019-10-23 22:43 ` Sebastian Miele

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