From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getting file properties
Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 22:11:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gjeovsg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAJ51ETox-weR_4Xa+vFX7akg9bCf6miJF1LJndVg6vGxViSStA@mail.gmail.com
John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> if I have an org-file with this in it:
>
> #+EMAIL: jkitchin@cmu.edu
>
> is there an org lisp command to get the email address after I have
> opened the file? I am looping through many files to generate a report,
> and would like to do this in emacs-lisp. I had hoped org-entry-get
> would do it, but it does not (it will retrieve it from #+PROPERTY:
> EMAIL jkitchin@cmu.edu).
>
> Is it possible to define other keywords similar to that? E.g.
>
> #+ANDREWID: jkitchin
>
> and then to be able to read them from a lisp command (without writing
> the parsing code myself)? something like (org-entry-get-keyword
> "ANDREWID").
>
> I could not find anything like this in the property API
> (http://orgmode.org/manual/Using-the-property-API.html) which is where
> i thought it would be.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
If you mean file-level properties (ie not properties on headlines),
`org-export-get-environment' is one place to look. It runs
`org-export--get-inbuffer-options', which parses options at the top of
the file. I don't think it will read arbitrary properties, though...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-05 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-04 21:42 getting file properties John Kitchin
2013-05-05 1:51 ` J. David Boyd
2013-05-05 4:36 ` Nick Dokos
2013-05-05 7:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-05-05 5:11 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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2013-05-05 16:34 John Kitchin
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