Brett Witty <brettwi...@brettwitty.net> writes: Hi,
> Is there a special property that contains the text of a headline but > not the stars, todo, tags or any of that other data? not a property, but functions: ,----[ C-h f org-heading-components RET ] | org-heading-components is a compiled Lisp function in `org.el'. | | (org-heading-components) | | Return the components of the current heading. | This is a list with the following elements: | - the level as an integer | - the reduced level, different if `org-odd-levels-only' is set. | - the TODO keyword, or nil | - the priority character, like ?A, or nil if no priority is given | - the headline text itself, or the tags string if no headline text | - the tags string, or nil. `---- * TODO Test :mytag: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (save-excursion (outline-previous-heading) (nth 4 (org-heading-components))) #+END_SRC #+results: : Test or ,----[ C-h f org-get-heading RET ] | org-get-heading is a compiled Lisp function in `org.el'. | | (org-get-heading &optional NO-TAGS NO-TODO) | | Return the heading of the current entry, without the stars. | When NO-TAGS is non-nil, don't include tags. | When NO-TODO is non-nil, don't include TODO keywords. `---- #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (save-excursion (outline-previous-heading) (org-get-heading t t)) #+END_SRC #+results: : Test -- cheers, Thorsten