From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Moe Subject: Re: About commit named "Allow multi-line properties to be specified in property blocks" Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:19:44 +0100 Message-ID: <4EB24EA0.2090209@christianmoe.com> References: <87vcr5c76e.fsf@gmail.com> <87k47ic77p.fsf@altern.org> Reply-To: mail@christianmoe.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45647) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLsSm-0007XW-UY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:15:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLsSm-0007wk-5G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:15:52 -0400 Received: from b1.hitrost.net ([91.185.211.67]:29996) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLsSl-0007wc-UF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:15:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k47ic77p.fsf@altern.org> 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: Bastien Cc: Nicolas Goaziou , Org Mode List On 11/3/11 2:42 AM, Bastien wrote: > But allowing a top-level :PROPERTIES: drawer with properties > whose scope is the entire file looks like a good idea to me. > > How other would feel about this? > Not sure if this is already clear, but just in case: The functionality is already there. PROPERTY lines set buffer-wide properties. This works now: #+TITLE: My foobar file #+PROPERTY: foo 1 #+PROPERTY: bar 2 #+PROPERTY: baz 3 Replacing it with a top-level property drawer before the outline would make another bit of syntax redundant, and it would sometimes save a bit of typing (if there are many buffer-wide properties tobe set): #+TITLE: My foobar file :PROPERTIES: :foo: 1 :bar: 2 :baz: 3 :END: I have come to expect that any file-wide settings are in #+... lines and that any property drawers are associated with outline entries. I don't know how important it is to maintain those expectations. Yours, Christian