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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: Orgmode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [babel] How to set multiple variables with properties
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:01:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E0106B4.7090409@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y60vhrci.fsf@gmail.com>

Hi, Eric,

Just curious: What about the org-entry--multivalued-property functions 
mentioned in "Using the properties API"?

Is anybody using multivalued properties for anything?

Yours,
Christian


On 6/21/11 10:17 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Unfortunately org-mode properties only allow a single entry for any
> given key, so you can only specify one variable using properties.
>
> However the following workaround does exist.
>
> *** alternative
>      :PROPERTIES:
>      :var:      vars=variables
>      :END:
>
> #+tblname: variables
> | var1 | 1 |
> | var2 | 2 |
>
> #+begin_src python
>    print vars[0][1]
>    print vars[1][1]
> #+end_src
>
> Best -- Eric
>
> Darlan Cavalcante Moreira<darcamo@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> I'm using org-babel to automate a few tasks and I'd like to define a few
>> variables that are common to several code blocks as sub-tree properties.
>>
>> It works when I have only one variable, where I can use
>> * Heading
>>    :PROPERTY:
>>    :var: variable1="value1"
>>    :END:
>>    #+begin_src python :results output
>>      print variable1
>>    #+end_src
>>
>>    #+results:
>>    : value1
>>
>> Is it possible to set multiples variables in this way?
>> I tried things like
>> :PROPERTY:
>> :var: variable1="value1" variable2="value2"
>> :END:
>>
>> :PROPERTY:
>> :var: variable1="value1",variable2="value2"
>> :END:
>>
>> :PROPERTY:
>> :variable1: "value1"
>> :variable2: "value2"
>> :END:
>> but none of them worked.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Darlan Cavalcante
>>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-21 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-21 18:42 [babel] How to set multiple variables with properties Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-06-21 20:17 ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-21 21:01   ` Christian Moe [this message]
2011-06-21 21:03     ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-22 18:27       ` Christian Moe
2011-06-23  1:38         ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-06-24  5:28           ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-24  5:25         ` Eric Schulte
2011-06-22  1:03   ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira

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