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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: canonical way to go beginning of a link
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 14:38:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d1mt8czp.fsf@Johns-MacBook-Air.local> (raw)

Is there a canonical way to jump to the beginning of a link in org-mode,
i.e. the first char?

I usually do something this like:

(goto-char (org-element-property :begin (org-element-context)))

but in things like font-lock it seems slow compared to a regexp. I have
not found a reliable regexp approach though. say I want to search back
for "cite:" with point at the ^ position below:

some text cite:a-key
            ^

If I run (re-search-backward "cite:") at the point above, it does not go
to the point 2 characters back.

Any ideas?

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-07-04 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-04 18:38 John Kitchin [this message]
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2016-07-06 10:49 canonical way to go beginning of a link Haustedt, Jens
2016-07-06 12:08 ` John Kitchin

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