Hello,
Calvin Young writes:
> If my cursor is in a description list item, what's the recommended way of
> getting the point at the beginning of the description list text (i.e.,
> after the bullet character)? To illustrate, given the following description
> list item, I'd like to get the point re
Nicolas Richard writes:
> Calvin Young writes:
>> How do I need to massage this to give me the beginning of the whole
>> list item? Is there a recommended solution that'd work for both
>> description lists *and* plain lists?
>
> This seems to work for me:
>
> (defun yf/org-beginning-of-item ()
>
Calvin Young writes:
> How do I need to massage this to give me the beginning of the whole
> list item? Is there a recommended solution that'd work for both
> description lists *and* plain lists?
This seems to work for me:
(defun yf/org-beginning-of-item ()
(let ((element (org-element-at-point
Ah, this makes sense. Unfortunately, an additional constraint I failed to
mention in the first email is that it'd be nice if the solution worked for
numbered lists as well. That solution unfortunately breaks on numbered
lists :(
Is there perhaps another way to accomplish this?
P.S. I just noticed
This is very un-orgish but it seems to do it. (forward-word) goes to the
end the next recognized word, (backward-word) to the beginning of the
word you are now at the end of, and (backward-char) to get to a
space. You just need org to get you on the list ;)
It seems to work on these.
- foo :: bar
Hi all,
If my cursor is in a description list item, what's the recommended way of
getting the point at the beginning of the description list text (i.e.,
after the bullet character)? To illustrate, given the following description
list item, I'd like to get the point represented by the pipe characte
