Re: [O] org-element-at-point fails in programming-modes

[Nicolas Richard]

> 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")

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.

HTH,

-- 
Nico.