Extract the second level headline

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For my global TODO list, I am showing breadcrumbs as suggested here :

(concat \"[ \"(org-format-outline-path (org-get-outline-path)) \" ]\") ")

to produce following:

I would like to show only the second level of project breadcrumb. So in this case, I would only display [Project A]. I think if I can make a function that can extract the second level, I just need to prepend with %? so that [Tasks] does not appear for Tasks, but only project names would appear for Projects. What would be an ideal way of extracting the second level?

@mobiuseng Not sure what you are asking, but I am using [spacemacs](http://spacemacs.org/), so I haven't configured the design aspect myself. — THIS USER NEEDS HELP, Mar 09 '16 at 09:39
@mobiuseng The bullets come from [org-bullets](https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets). — erikstokes, Mar 10 '16 at 00:59

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '16 at 01:10

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All you have to do to get the second element of (org-get-outline-path) is to call nth.

(nth N LIST)

Return the Nth element of LIST. N counts from zero. If LIST is not that long, nil is returned.

The second element is (nth 1 LIST). Replace (org-get-outline-path) with (list (nth 1 (org-get-outline-path))) (we use list because that's what org-format-outline-path expects).

answered Mar 10 '16 at 01:10

erikstokes

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Thanks so much! That worked out well. However, I still have one problem that I cannot figure out for some reason. Could you take a look at the problem [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35910204/org-agenda-prefix-format-does-not-work)? – THIS USER NEEDS HELP Mar 10 '16 at 07:31

Extract the second level headline

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