Re: PROPERTIES before the first headline

From: Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PROPERTIES before the first headline
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:06:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7BF7CB.8090401@cs.tu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7BF6D6.4030603@cs.tu-berlin.de>

Forgot to say: yes, I think it is
intentional that this does not work
before the first headline (properties
belong to headlines not to files)

But maybe it would make sense to allow
for "file properties".

Also sprach Stephan Schmitt:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> you forgot the colon after PROPERTY,
> i.e. the following line at the beginning
> of the buffer does work:
> 
> #+PROPERTY: myprop don't ask
> 
> (don't forget to refresh the buffer
> setup by typing C-c C-c with the cursor
> in that line).
> 
> Then the call
> 
> (org-entry-get (point) "myprop" t)
> 
> returns "don't ask".  Note the third
> argument (t), which allows inheritance.
> 
> Hth,
> 	Stephan
> 
> Also sprach Christian Wittern:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Extending my use of org-mode has left
>> me running into another wall: I would
>> like to set some custom properties
>> globally for the whole file, before
>> everything else.  There does not seem
>> to be a way to do this
>>
>> #+PROPERTY myprop don't ask
>>
>> and having the :PROPERTY: drawer after
>> the #+ lines also does not seem to
>> work: Whenever I try to use the API
>> functions to get at the property, I am
>> told that I am before the first
>> headling (which I know).  So, is this
>> behavior intentional?  And if yes, is
>> there a way to work around this?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
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