From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: [ANN] BREAKING CHANGE -- removing #+BABEL file-wide property lines Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:06:36 -0400 Message-ID: <30891.1319141196@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <87pqhrih3s.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGyt1-00053R-Qu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:06:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGyt0-00035l-7A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:06:43 -0400 Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:41483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGyt0-00033q-1I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:06:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Eric Schulte of "Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:43:35 MDT." <87pqhrih3s.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Schulte Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Org Mode Eric Schulte wrote: > I have just pushed up a change to the Org-mode git repository which > removes support for #+BABEL lines. Please use the more general > #+PROPERTIES lines instead. > Coming late to the dance - sorry. I think that's very confusing. "Property" is an overloaded term in org: we now have the :PROPERTIES: drawer, the #+PROPERTY line and the #+PROPERTIES line (singular and plural forms are already pretty bad). Also, there is the general concept of properties (the stuff that the property API applies to). Unless there is an underlying unity of which I'm unaware, I'd strongly suggest another term - perhaps CODE_BLOCK_HEADER_ARGUMENTS (plus an easy-template for easy insertion). Nick