Re: continuing about orgalist org-element interaction

[Ihor Radchenko]

Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> I figured its these 5 lines at the start of org-element-at-point
>
> (unless (derived-mode-p 'org-mode)
>          (display-warning
>           '(org-element org-element-parser)
>           (format-message
>            "`org-element-at-point' cannot be used in non-Org buffer %S (%s)"
>          (current-buffer) major-mode)))
>
> Now the current buffer (in my case) is text-mode, obviously not org
> mode so why that check??

That warning says that you should not call `org-element-at-point' (Org
parser) in non-Org buffers. That may lead to unpredictable results.

Something in your Emacs is doing that.
You may find out what by doing something like
M-x debug-on-entry RET org-element-at-point

> Commenting out those lines the error message has gone. (And of course
> its still working)

So, you are lucky. May even disable that warning.

> Now obviously I dont understand enough about the innards of org to
> make any suggestion to remove as Ive currently tried.
> But still there is the question (really for Nicolas)
> What is the meaning of ensuring that its org mode and warning
> otherwise when orgalist (like orgtbl) are meant specifically for non
> org buffers?

`org-element-at-point' has nothing to do with orgalist.
It is a function defined in Org mode.

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