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From: Richard Parsons <richard.lee.parsons@gmail.com>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Function to return content of item
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 18:19:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB+=1LE4EHTYufFUgJ899MPnW7-iizpw16kEyi03YO0_VoYdJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2bmr3jsmr.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu>

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That is very kind of you - many thanks indeed for your assistance.


On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:05 PM, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> I think this is basically what you are looking for.
>
> (defun org-heading-content ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let (bp ep)
>     (setq bp (save-excursion
>                (or (and (outline-previous-heading)
>                         (progn (org-end-of-meta-data)
>                                (point)))
>                    (point-min)))
>           ep (save-excursion
>                (or (and (outline-next-heading) (point))
>                    (point-max))))
>     (buffer-substring-no-properties bp ep)))
>
> Richard Parsons writes:
>
> > John, many thanks for your reply.
> >
> > Regarding subheadings, I would only want the content of the current
> > sub-item, so if it is a subheading I only want the text from after the
> > subheading (and after its property drawer) up to the next heading (or the
> > end of the file).
> >
> > Also, when I run your code on a paragraph, I just get the contents from
> > that paragraph (rather than all paragraphs in that item). Maybe "item" is
> > the wrong work, is "node" better?
> >
> > Maybe I need to write some code using the org motion commands in order to
> > manually identify the region that I'm looking for.
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Richard
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:45 AM, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know of a function. Something like this may be what you want.
> >> not all elements have :contents-begin though
> >>
> >> (let ((el (org-element-context)))
> >>  (buffer-substring-no-properties
> >>  (org-element-property :contents-begin el)
> >>  (org-element-property :contents-end el)))
> >>
> >>
> >> It also a little tricky to figure out what to do about subheadings. Do
> >> they count as content or not?
> >>
> >> Richard Parsons writes:
> >>
> >> > Hi there
> >> >
> >> > Is there a function that will give me the content of the current
> item? I
> >> > mean simply the text of the whole item without its heading or
> properties
> >> > drawer.
> >> >
> >> > It seems to me likely that such a function would exist, but I haven't
> >> been
> >> > able to find it in the documentation.
> >> >
> >> > Many thanks
> >> > Richard
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Professor John Kitchin
> >> Doherty Hall A207F
> >> Department of Chemical Engineering
> >> Carnegie Mellon University
> >> Pittsburgh, PA 15213
> >> 412-268-7803
> >> @johnkitchin
> >> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
> >>
>
>
> --
> Professor John Kitchin
> Doherty Hall A207F
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Pittsburgh, PA 15213
> 412-268-7803
> @johnkitchin
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
>



-- 
Richard Parsons

Email:  richard.lee.parsons@googlemail.com

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-08 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-07 23:04 Function to return content of item Richard Parsons
2017-05-08  0:45 ` John Kitchin
     [not found]   ` <CAB+=1LFbo7_nysB2TfcrDHZ87bjdMCEGAg5zu38nOi78qEbJ8g@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-08 15:05     ` John Kitchin
2017-05-08 17:19       ` Richard Parsons [this message]

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