Re: Can `org-element-map' act on secondary-strings?

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks, the 'plain-text type was what I missed. I used
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (append '(org-data)
>           org-element-all-elements
>           org-element-all-objects)
> #+end_src
>
> as types for mapping, but need to add '(plain-text) to the types to access
> those :parent properties inside text-strings.

You don't need `org-data' type. The tree root doesn't have any property
anyway.

> My use case is to turn a parse tree that is a circular list into a regular
> list, and it seems that I achieved it now, e.g. using your minimal example

[...]

> I have a special use for this, but maybe this can be useful in other
> cases too, e.g. when people want to operate directly on the parse-tree
> and find it more difficult to handle circular-lists than 'normal'
> lists.

I don't know why you would want that nor why it would make things
easier, but as long as it suits you, that's fine.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou