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From: Christoph LANGE <ch.lange@jacobs-university.de>
To: Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bugs/features of accumulating property values when used with entries (concretely: in org-contacts)
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:17:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFB5D1E.3080109@jacobs-university.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80d3bbv133.fsf@somewhere.org>

Hi Seb,

thanks for your help!

2011-12-26 15:50 Sebastien Vauban:
>> Christoph LANGE<ch.lange@jacobs-university.de>  writes:
>>> 2. accumulation doesn't work within the same entry; details follow:
>>>
>>> So when I changed the above contact entry to
>>>
>>> * Contact Name
>>>    :PROPERTIES:
>>>    :EMAIL:    foo@bar.org
>>>    :EMAIL+:   bar@baz.org
>>>    :END:
>>>
>>> I would have expected (org-entry-get (point) "EMAIL" t) to evaluate to, well,
>>>
>>> at least "foo@bar.org bar@baz.org" (and in some later version of org-mode
>>>
>>> maybe to a two-item list, for even easier automated processing).  But I got
>>>
>>> the following unexpected results, which indicate that accumulation is not yet
>>>
>>> supported in this context (well, if it was ever _intended_…):
>
> … AFAIK the `+' is only supported at this
> stage for the `var' property: you can't take any property and add a `+' to
>
> transform it in an accumulative property.
>
> Whether this should be restricted by default or open by default, I have no
>
> opinion at this stage.

If it is intended to be limited to the "var" property, then at least the
documentation ("Property syntax") needs fixing, as it states generally:

>    If you want to add to the value of an existing property, append a
> `+' to the property name.

But thanks a lot for pointing this out:

> I know, however, multivalued properties are sort of already well supported.
>
> See http://orgmode.org/manual/Using-the-property-API.html for more info.

Cheers,

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Lange, http://www.facebook.com/ch.lange, Skype duke4701

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-28 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-16 14:28 Bugs/features of accumulating property values when used with entries (concretely: in org-contacts) Christoph LANGE
2011-12-26 14:16 ` Bastien
2011-12-26 14:50   ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-12-28 18:17     ` Christoph LANGE [this message]
2011-12-28 18:47       ` Eric Schulte
2011-12-29  8:03         ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-12-28 18:54       ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-01-21  5:48     ` Samuel Wales

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