From: Calvin Young <calvinwyoung@gmail.com>
To: John Kitchin <johnrkitchin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting beginning postiion of a description list
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:47:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANniJExSq8boA7PDZAgKejB+9c91R3dJMmQnvzD5x7eRTL6c5Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24mrrh2xf.fsf@vpn-128-237-146-123.library.vpn.cmu.edu>
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Ah, this makes sense. Unfortunately, an additional constraint I failed to
mention in the first email is that it'd be nice if the solution worked for
numbered lists as well. That solution unfortunately breaks on numbered
lists :(
Is there perhaps another way to accomplish this?
P.S. I just noticed the typo in "position" in the subject of this
thread...apols, how very embarrassing of me.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:31 PM, John Kitchin <johnrkitchin@gmail.com>
wrote:
> This is very un-orgish but it seems to do it. (forward-word) goes to the
> end the next recognized word, (backward-word) to the beginning of the
> word you are now at the end of, and (backward-char) to get to a
> space. You just need org to get you on the list ;)
>
> It seems to work on these.
>
> - foo :: bar (goto-char (org-element-property :contents-begin
> (org-element-at-point)))
> - baz :: goo
> - 1 egg
> - 0.5 cups
> - :punc
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (defun gg ()
> (interactive)
> (beginning-of-line)
> (forward-word)
> (backward-word)
> (while (not (looking-at " "))
> (backward-char)))
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> Calvin Young writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks everyone :)
> >
> > Calvin
>
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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 [this message]
2015-01-16 7:31 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-01-16 10:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-01-16 10:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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