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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Calvin Young <calvinwyoung@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting beginning postiion of a description list
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:58:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fwnt2kh.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANniJEwZu8UcvbB6G+0Q+e_ZYQNFUsw9DJxxVg9cfKvSnoSQOw@mail.gmail.com> (Calvin Young's message of "Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:28:52 -0800")

Hello,

Calvin Young <calvinwyoung@gmail.com> 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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-16 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-15  4:28 Getting beginning postiion of a description list Calvin Young
2015-01-16  2:31 ` John Kitchin
2015-01-16  5:47   ` Calvin Young
2015-01-16  7:31 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-01-16 10:57   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-01-16 10:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]

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