From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Programmatically handling org files
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:37:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r38odcl0.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ51ETo7cCB_LWuNA8s7di==61Lua3dtsHT=m4KFtiiDjNoE1w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 12 2016, John Kitchin wrote:
> indeed! Maybe I misunderstood the OP.
>
> You can find more on the API here:
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-element-api.html
>
> There are also a bunch of functions to do other things, e.g.
>
> (org-todo) (org-cut-subtree) (org-entry-put) and many others
>
> that let you change properties of headings, cut them, etc...
>
> These are documented in the org code. The best way to learn how to use them
> is to reverse engineer how you would make the change you want manually,
> e.g. which keys do you press, then use C-h k on those keys to see what
> commands get run.
Yes, I've been doing that and I've arrived at something that works, just
wasn't sure it was the Right Way™. :-)
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-12 11:44 Programmatically handling org files Joost Kremers
2016-09-12 13:47 ` John Kitchin
2016-09-12 21:59 ` Joost Kremers
2016-09-12 18:21 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-09-12 18:30 ` John Kitchin
2016-09-12 21:37 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2016-09-12 21:22 ` Joost Kremers
2016-09-12 22:10 ` Nick Dokos
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