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From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Q : select current org item as region
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Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>>>>>> Richard Riley writes:
>
>> Just for google completeness
>
>>       (goto-char (org-entry-beginning-position)) (set-mark
>> (org-entry-end-position))
>
>> seemed the most efficient after digging about a bit.
>
> As a side note,
>
> (goto-char (org-entry-beginning-position))
>
> is in fact a convoluted way (if you don't need point value) of calling
>
> (outline-back-to-heading t)
>
> so I doubt this is the "most efficient" in this case.
>

Good spot - but I will probably stick to the org- functions in general
in case they are ever expanded for whatever reasons.

The speed overhead in an interactive environment is pretty much zero ;)