Thanks! It'd be nice if there was a way to turn this into a property for
easy dynamic columnview blocks, but I guess you can't have everything :)

BrettW

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Brett Witty <brettwitty@brettwitty.net> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Is there a special property that contains the text of a headline but
> > not the stars, todo, tags or any of that other data?
>
> not a property, but functions:
>
> ,----[ C-h f org-heading-components RET ]
> | org-heading-components is a compiled Lisp function in `org.el'.
> |
> | (org-heading-components)
> |
> | Return the components of the current heading.
> | This is a list with the following elements:
> | - the level as an integer
> | - the reduced level, different if `org-odd-levels-only' is set.
> | - the TODO keyword, or nil
> | - the priority character, like ?A, or nil if no priority is given
> | - the headline text itself, or the tags string if no headline text
> | - the tags string, or nil.
> `----
>
> * TODO Test :mytag:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (save-excursion
>  (outline-previous-heading)
>   (nth 4 (org-heading-components)))
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+results:
> : Test
>
> or
>
> ,----[ C-h f org-get-heading RET ]
> | org-get-heading is a compiled Lisp function in `org.el'.
> |
> | (org-get-heading &optional NO-TAGS NO-TODO)
> |
> | Return the heading of the current entry, without the stars.
> | When NO-TAGS is non-nil, don't include tags.
> | When NO-TODO is non-nil, don't include TODO keywords.
> `----
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (save-excursion
>  (outline-previous-heading)
>   (org-get-heading t t))
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+results:
> : Test
>
> --
> cheers,
> Thorsten
>
>
>