Mike Gauland <mikely...@gmail.com> writes:
> I'd like to be able to be able to get the text associated with a given
> heading (based on the current point, for example).
>
> Can anyone point me to an example for doing this in the approved manner
> (assuming there is one), or to functions to help with this?
Don't trust me to give you an approved manner, but a couple of options:
* If you just care about headlines and assuming you want all
associated content, including the headline text itself, perhaps
calling org-copy-subtree non-interactively will suffice.
If that doesn't behave how you want, looking at org-copy-subtree's
source could still give you an idea of how to do what you want in
elisp.
* You could use the org-element API to get the information and likely
could easily tweak something like below to suit your needs.
(and (ignore-errors (org-back-to-heading t))
(let ((el (org-element-at-point)))
(buffer-substring
(org-element-property :begin el)
(org-element-property :end el))))
--
Kyle
