Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr> writes: >> Although Org functions are of course made only for working in org-mode >> and its a bit hard to see at first sight how this could be useful, I >> wonder if the regexps could be made a bit more general to make >> `org-element-at-point' work in programming modes too (most likely this >> behaviour is caused by references to character-classes that differ in >> text-modes and programming-modes)? > > The reason is that a newline has the "endcomment" syntax in programming > modes, but has "whitespace" syntax in text modes. So the regexp > "\\+BEGIN_\\(\\S-+\\)" (which can be found in org-element.el) matches > e.g. "+BEGIN_QUOTE\nhallo" instead of just "+BEGIN_QUOTE". > ("\\S-" means "anything that doesn't have whitespace syntax")
Yes, thats more or less what I expected to be the root cause of the problem. > You could wrap your code in a (with-syntax-table org-mode-syntax-table > ...) and cross fingers, or simply do the (org-element-at-point) > computations in a temporary (org-mode) buffer. Ok, thanks, that sounds promising. OTOH, is the use of "\\S-" really mandatory, couldn't a more robust construct be used, either something like this (untested) regexp: ,---- | "[^[:space:]\\n]+" `---- or a custom character-class that consists of whitespace plus newline? -- cheers, Thorsten