Re: org-element-context in table.el behavior

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I have run into a surprise with org-element-context on a link in a table.el
> cell. It is best illustrated here:
>
> +---+------------+
> | # | name       |
> +---+------------+
> | 1 | [[./test.org]] |
> +---+------------+
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results code
> (save-excursion
>   (re-search-backward (concat "test." "org"))
>   (org-element-context))
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> #+RESULTS:

> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (table
>  (:begin 1463 :end 1563 :type table\.el :tblfm nil :contents-begin nil
> :contents-end nil :value "+---+------------+\n| # | name
> |\n+---+------------+\n| 1 | [[./test.org]] |\n+---+------------+\n"
> :post-blank 1 :post-affiliated 1463 :parent nil))
> #+end_src
>

[...]

> Is this expected behavior, or a bug?

This is expected: table.el tables, as their name suggest, are opaque to
Org mode. In particular, it doesn't know how to parse them. It just
feeds table.el with them at export time.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou