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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Function to return content of item
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To: Richard Parsons <richard.lee.parsons@gmail.com>
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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


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