Thanks! That does seem to do what I want. John ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Associate Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Daimrod wrote: > John Kitchin 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, > > -- > Daimrod/Greg > >