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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Context of interaction vs. literal syntactic interpretation
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:00:57 -0500
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Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> ...
> My view is that precision and usability need not be mutually
> exclusive.Might we have a bunch of precise, modular functions that
> rely on the new parser? E.g., something like
> org-open-link-at-point. This would do exactly what it says -- i.e.,
> open a link if one is at the point. Then, on top of these function s
> we could rebuild fuzzier "meta" and "dwim" functions (e.g.,
> org-open-links-in-paragraph, org-open-links-in-entry, org-meta-open,
> org-open-at-point,... whatever).
> ...

I've been composing an email in my head that ran almost exactly along
the lines you describe, although I doubt it would have been as clear.
Thank you for sending this!

Nick