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Oscar
Oscar

Reputation: 11

How to Copy Org-Mode Contents Under a Heading

In org-mode I need to quickly copy content under a heading to the kill ring excluding the heading itself. I found the function org-copy-subtree, but it copies the entire subtree with the heading.

In the following example I would like to copy "Sample text line 1" and "Sample text line 2" when my cursor is somewhere in the "My Sample Heading 1":

* My Sample Heading 1
Sample text line 1
Sample text line 2
* My Sample Heading 2
Sample text line 3
Sample text line 4

Is there a way to do it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1081

Answers (3)

Hylobatid
Hylobatid

Reputation: 31

This might be a bit of a dead question, but here's my solution in case anyone happens upon this and wants to use the org-mark-subtree way of doing it:

(defun my/org-copy-text-under-heading ()
  (interactive)
;; Select the current Org subtree
  (org-mark-subtree)
;; Deselect the heading line
  (next-line 1)
;; Copy the current region
  (kill-ring-save
   (region-beginning)
   (region-end))
;; Deselect the region after copying
  (deactivate-mark))

I've just tried to explain that answer a little more fully (as I assume the jy will only work with Evil Mode?).

Upvotes: 3

user2567544
user2567544

Reputation: 597

I use org-mark-subtree then jy.

Upvotes: 1

petrucci4prez
petrucci4prez

Reputation: 508

This will return a substring of everything under the current headline. If you want to kill the contents directly, just replace buffer-substring-no-properties with kill-region.

(save-excursion
 (org-back-to-heading)
 (forward-line)
 (unless (= (point) (point-max))
  (let ((b (point))
        (e (or (outline-next-heading) (point-max))))
   (buffer-substring-no-properties b e))))

Upvotes: 1

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