From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Mike Gauland <mikelygee@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting text at position?
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 23:35:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wohuglj1.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80214e4f-d9e5-1daa-8c91-116c19bfff59@gmail.com>
Mike Gauland <mikelygee@gmail.com> writes:
> I'd like to be able to be able to get the text associated with a given
> heading (based on the current point, for example).
>
> Can anyone point me to an example for doing this in the approved manner
> (assuming there is one), or to functions to help with this?
Don't trust me to give you an approved manner, but a couple of options:
* If you just care about headlines and assuming you want all
associated content, including the headline text itself, perhaps
calling org-copy-subtree non-interactively will suffice.
If that doesn't behave how you want, looking at org-copy-subtree's
source could still give you an idea of how to do what you want in
elisp.
* You could use the org-element API to get the information and likely
could easily tweak something like below to suit your needs.
(and (ignore-errors (org-back-to-heading t))
(let ((el (org-element-at-point)))
(buffer-substring
(org-element-property :begin el)
(org-element-property :end el))))
--
Kyle
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2019-06-10 2:42 Getting text at position? Mike Gauland
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