Re: Get list of top-level headings

[Jonathan Gregory]

Hi

On 19 May 2021, John Kitchin wrote:

> I think this is all you need to get a list of titles of level 1
> headings as strings
>
> (org-map-entries (lambda () (fifth (org-heading-components)))
> "LEVEL=1")
>
> this also works for me:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (org-map-entries (lambda () (org-element-property :title
> (org-element-at-point)) ) "LEVEL=1")
> #+END_SRC

This is a better approach indeed. No need to create a new list, 
although I get faster results using:

(while (re-search-backward org-complex-heading-regexp nil t)


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Jonathan