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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Extract source code /with/ captions
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:06:21 -0500
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James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> writes:

> ELEMENT:
> (((#("25% coin toss in SuperCollider" 0 30 (:parent #2)))))
>
> This is correct, and I also see that I can use (plist-get ... :value)
> to get the code string.
>
> Here, I'm hung up on some (large?) gaps in my elisp knowledge. I have
> no idea what #(...) signifies, or what functions I can use to get the
> string out of it. "#" Is not an especially useful search term in
> google, bing etc...
>
> Can anyone help with my next step?
>

Not sure whether this will help but these are basically just strings
with text properties. See

     (info "(elisp) Text Properties in Strings")

> Also, big thanks to Nicolas for org-element. The fact that an elisp
> novice can extract captions for source blocks in about half an hour of
> tinkering is nothing short of criminally easy. Spectacular.
>
Oh, yes indeed!

Nick