Re: Upstreaming org-element-ast (was: Improving Emacs' iCalendar support)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Richard Lawrence <rwl@recursewithless.net> writes:

> I looked briefly at the definition of org-element--property-idx and at
> its disassembly, which makes it look like one can actually do something
> like what I was suggesting by modifying the property list
> org-element--standard-properties-idxs, like:
>
> (let ((org-element--standard-properties-idxs
>        (plist-put org-element--standard-properties-idxs
>                   :value 5))) ;; use the :post-blank slot for :value instead
>    ...)
>
> but maybe I'm not understanding something. Would modifying this plist
> from the calling code work as a strategy for "renaming" the standard
> properties slots?

It might work, but you will need to wrap your code into the let above.
I think that it is what I suggested at the very beginning:

> > The only thing coming to my mind is asking the libraries to use
> >
> > (let ((org-element--standard-properties <custom value>))
> >   (defun library-x (...)
> >     ...))
> 
> Personally I think this would be a bit much to ask...it would be fairly
> annoying to have to wrap all one's functions like this, even if there
> was a macro to do it.

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