Re: creating new #+KEYWORD: variables

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

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

> You can retrieve keywords in the org-file like this:
>
> (defun get-keyword (key)
>   (org-element-map (org-element-parse-buffer) 'keyword
>     (lambda (k)
>       (when (string= key (org-element-property :key k))
> (org-element-property :value k)))
>     nil t))

As a minor addendum, 

    (org-element-parse-buffer 'element)

is more efficient in this case. 

An even more efficient way to retrieve keywords, assuming buffer is not
already parsed, would be:

    (org-with-point-at 1
      (let ((case-fold-search t)
            (regexp (format "^[ \t]*#\\+%s:" key))
            (result nil))
        (while (re-search-forward regexp nil t)
          (let ((element (org-element-at-point)))
            (when (eq 'keyword (org-element-type element))
              (push (org-element-property :value element) result))))
        result))

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou