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[O] Expose value-begin and value-end instead of just value in org-elemen


From: Somelauw .
Subject: [O] Expose value-begin and value-end instead of just value in org-element API
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:29:27 +0100

Some org-mode elements expose "contents-begin" and "contents-end" properties as buffer positions, whereas other elements such as verbatim and org-src-block expose a "value" property in the form of a string.

I think it would be preferable to also expose the value by beginning and ending buffer positions for the following reasons:
- Consistency with elements that expose contents-begin and contents-end.
- More powerful. In my evil-org plugin I want to be able to mark the value property of the org element at point (so the user can do stuff like easily copy the code of the current code block), but to do so I need the beginning and ending position in the buffer of "value". The org-element API does currently not provide clean way to retrieve these positions.
- It's usually more efficient to return the beginning and ending positions than to retrieve the substring that contains the value, which may require a large buffer partition to be copied.

Kind regards,
Somelauw
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