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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>,
	John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: get the body of a heading up to the next subheading
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 00:41:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lflvaitq.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eernu8bi.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

> I don't think there's anything built-in, no. I have needed this in
> various places, and did something similar to the above, except with a
> combination of `org-back-to-heading', `org-end-of-meta-data', then
> `outline-next-heading'. 

Hmm. I just noticed a reference to built-in
org-agenda-get-some-entry-text in the function I sent earlier.
I do not see why it cannot be used outside agenda. Maybe something like

(let ((org-agenda-entry-text-cleanup-hook nil))
(org-agenda-get-some-entry-text (point-marker) #x40000000))


Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>> Thanks! Here is what I am currently using:
>>
>> (defun canvas-org-get-heading-body ()
>>   "Return the body of the current heading up to the next heading."
>>   (interactive)
>>   (save-excursion
>>     (unless (org-at-heading-p)
>>       (org-previous-visible-heading 1))
>>     (org-end-of-meta-data)
>>     (buffer-substring (point)
>> 		      (progn (re-search-forward org-heading-regexp nil 'mv)
>> 			     (line-beginning-position)))))
>>
>> So far it gets what I want. I am pretty sure I have reinvented this,
>> maybe even from code I wrote before... I couldn't find my answer on SO
>> or my blog though.
>
> I don't think there's anything built-in, no. I have needed this in
> various places, and did something similar to the above, except with a
> combination of `org-back-to-heading', `org-end-of-meta-data', then
> `outline-next-heading'. 

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@alumni.sutd.edu.sg


      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-13 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-11 23:04 get the body of a heading up to the next subheading John Kitchin
2020-05-12  1:03 ` briangpowell .
2020-05-12  5:11 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-05-13 14:15   ` John Kitchin
2020-05-13 14:38     ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-05-13 14:49       ` John Kitchin
2020-05-22 14:41         ` Bastien
2020-05-13 16:08     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-13 16:41       ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]

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