Hi Ihor, Thank you for your reply and your explanations: very useful to learn how the system works 🙂
Prior to org 9.7, I used to use `org-meta-return` everywhere to nicely add elements to a list. Whether in mu4e, markdown, or anywhere, typing: - item1 <org-meta-return> Would nicely give me: - item1 - Not a big deal you will say. But I liked the behaviour. I know that org functions (with the exception of `org-open-at-point-global` and maybe a few others intended to work everywhere) are only supposed to work in org buffers. But many functions actually used to work outside of org, even if that was never intended. I took advantage of that 😄 So, indeed, not a bug and probably nothing you want to worry about. I'll just have to learn to live without those nice little org behaviours in non-org buffers. Note that the Reddit thread I linked in my prior email suggests that I am not the only one who took advantage of this. I don't know what org function that other user was using in non-org buffer, but it used to work and stopped in 9.7. Deep thanks for all the work, Best, Marie -- Marie-Helene Burle Research Solutions Specialist Research Computing | Simon Fraser University Digital Research Alliance of Canada https://www.sfu.ca/~msb2/ Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes: > Marie-Helene Burle <mhbu...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I suspect that this has already been reported as I saw it here: >> https://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-elpa-diffs@gnu.org/msg102743.html. > > This is just a reference to the commit that introduced the explicit > error. Do note that the error got downgraded to a warning in a more > recent development version of Org mode. But the warning still indicates > inappropriate usage of Org functions that are designed to work in Org > mode and expect Org mode buffer. > >> Just wanted to make sure it got to the right channel. Apologies for a >> useless message if it already did. >> >> Noticed this problem with org 9.7. Used to be no problem with prior version. >> >> Also mentioned in >> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18gkx0i/orgelementatpoint_cannot_be_used_in_nonorg_buffer/. > >> In my case, I get the error when using `org-meta-return` in non-org buffers. > >> I then get either of these error messages: >> >> Warning (org-element): ‘org-element-at-point’ cannot be used in non-Org >> buffer >> Warning (org-element): org-element--cache: Org parser error in <my-file>. >> Resetting. > > `org-meta-return' cannot be used in non-Org buffers. Just as the error > states. May you please explain why you are trying to use Org mode > command outside Org mode? > > Not a bug, although we can still discuss your use case. > Canceled. (as a bug)
