From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony day Subject: org reserved and special words in drawers Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 14:33:07 +1100 Message-ID: <5750CCC1-3900-4FDC-8525-A51B7D85958C@gmail.com> References: <1352210038.36570.YahooMailNeo@web29801.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <87625i8yoa.fsf@gmail.com> <1352221405.73627.YahooMailNeo@web29802.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <87pq3q7iny.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60047) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVwO9-00055C-4k for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:33:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVwO8-0002nF-2J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:33:12 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:64997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TVwO7-0002mw-Nt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:33:11 -0500 Received: by mail-pa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id fa10so877434pad.0 for ; Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:33:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87pq3q7iny.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: Org-mode Hi, I've been thinking about a patch for org-mode that would give an option to place various org concepts in a drawer rather than automatically in the body of the document. The overall idea is that for some use cases, it makes sense to disturb the underlying content as little as possible. In other words, we could then /apply/ org-mode on a document rather than transforming a document into an org document. Is this doable or is it a crazy amount of work for little benefit? The org concepts I've penciled in are: ** tags What might be the best scheme for defining tags as properties rather than in headlines? ** scheduled, closed, deadline It should be possible to put these in drawers. ** =todo= Can we put =todo= keywords in drawers but still easily use all the org-mode technology surrounding them? ** item Would it be at all possible to define an item without actually adding a header? One solution that comes to mind is to define an item (or a subtree in other words) as all content until the next properties drawer. Is there anything else missing from this list? Tony