Re: [O] Getting beginning postiion of a description list

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Calvin Young <address@hidden> writes:

> If my cursor is in a description list item, what's the recommended way of
> getting the point at the beginning of the description list text (i.e.,
> after the bullet character)? To illustrate, given the following description
> list item, I'd like to get the point represented by the pipe character "|":
>
> - |foo :: bar
>
> If I use something like `(org-element-property :contents-begin
> (org-element-at-point))`, that gives me the point at the beginning of the
> description, not the list item:
>
> - foo :: |bar
>
> How do I need to massage this to give me the beginning of the whole list
> item? Is there a recommended solution that'd work for both description
> lists *and* plain lists?

See `org-special-ctrl-a/e'.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou