Re: org-element-at-point and special blocks

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Is there a reason why org-element-at-point reports the type to be a
> paragraph for special blocks?  E.g. in the examples at the bottom of this
> mail, where | is the cursor, the types are: export-block, src-block and
> paragraph with a nested special block.

This is a corner-case. `org-element-at-point' returns the closest
element at point, but prefers to see an empty paragraph than a special
block, for consistency. I.e., when point is within block boundaries, you
never return `special-block'.

> Is there a neat way to detect if point is inside a block?  I’m trying to
> write a function for structures (e.g. #+begin_latex) that works like
> org-babel-demarcate-block.

(org-element-lineage (org-element-at-point) '(special-block) t)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou