Re: [O] analog of org-element-at-point for objects?

[John Kitchin]

Thanks! That does seem to do what I want.

John

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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Daimrod <address@hidden> wrote:

John Kitchin <address@hidden> writes:
Hi John,

> Is there an easy way to to get the object at point? I found
> org-element-at-point, but what I need is to determine if point is on a
> link of a particular type, and links appear to be objects rather than
> elements.

I think that `org-element-context' is what you're looking for.

> an alternative solution for me would be how do you move point to the
> beginning of a link (if it is on a link)? I found org-next-link and
> org-previous-link, but neither of these move you to the beginning of
> the current link. Then, I could use org-element-link-parser, but that
> only works with point at the beginning of a link.
>
> The reason I was looking into this is here: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/03/07/Storing-label-links-in-org-mode/
>
> It just seems there must be a better way than I implemented. thanks!

Best,

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