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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Buffer positions from `org-element-map'?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:32:47 +0100
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Hello,

"Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu> writes:

> What I would like is to have the same values of :begin as would be
> obtained by placing the cursor on each inline src block and evaluating
> (org-element-context). As is evident below, :begin is sometimes a
> relative position.

This was fixed recently.

> Suggestions on how to get the buffer position or some other way to do
> in situ buffer modifications from `org-element-map' without
> interpreting a complete parse tree (which I expect requires more
> computation that doing selected `delete then insert' operations) are
> welcome.

I think the most efficient is to do a fast search, e.g.,

  (search-forward "src_" nil t)

then, with `org-element-context', double-check type of object found and
collect :begin property.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou