Martin Gross <m-gr...@gmx.net> writes:
> Dear helpers,
>
> I would like to get a counting of the first level items in a buffer
> (or even better in a region). Since I‘m not a programmer I tried
> this, which doesn‘t work:
>
> (defun org-items-counting ()
> "Print a message with the counting of the first level outline items
> in the current buffer"
> (interactive)
> (save-excursion
> (goto-char (point-min))
> (message "Counting of first level outline items: %d"
> (count-matches "\n* "))))
>
> Probably there is a very much better approaching to this problem.
> Could please somebody help me?
This should work, although its a bit funny (you can wrap it in an
interactive command like above):
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(with-current-buffer "my.org"
(eval (append (list '+)
(org-map-entries
(lambda () (if (eq (org-outline-level) 1) 1 0))))))
#+end_src
or rather something like this:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(with-current-buffer "my.org"
(let ((count 0))
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward "^\\* " nil 'noerror)
(setq count (1+ count)))
count))
#+end_src
--
cheers,
Thorsten
