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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: How to compute the number of headlines under the given headline?
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:47:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw4yona2.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2egqb2ez5.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu> (John Kitchin's message of "Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:37:34 -0500")

Hello,

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> What about:
>
> * Count headlines in current level
>
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (save-restriction
>   (org-narrow-to-subtree)
>   (1- (length
>    (org-element-map
>        (org-element-parse-buffer)
>        'headline
>      (lambda (x) 1)))))
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : 5
>
> ** one
> ** two
> *** three
> **** four
> ** five
>
>
> This counts the headline you are in, so I subtract one from the total
> count.

Note that, in this case, 

  (org-element-parse-buffer 'headline)

is much more efficient.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-31 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-31 12:47 How to compute the number of headlines under the given headline? Marcin Borkowski
2015-01-31 14:37 ` John Kitchin
2015-01-31 17:47   ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2015-02-01 20:44     ` John Kitchin

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