From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: SUMMARY: [Feature Request] Make property-drawers exportable Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:56:18 +0200 Message-ID: <603659F2-7FCC-4920-9ABF-2318F9FE5D5C@gmail.com> References: <8738shvzaj.fsf@gmail.com> <87ppvkiz8b.fsf@gmail.com> <87vc5cviu6.fsf@gmail.com> <871u80imo6.fsf@gmail.com> <33429FE3-CAA5-4F58-8536-135F96CA9C11@gmail.com> <406B4BB5-5A38-44EB-AC97-DEA17644164C@gmail.com> <3EAEACD0-1B99-40B7-8A5D-AE491C9F8528@gmail.com> <87had9tboh.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_5E695427-FB33-41AD-A98B-27A5AB7C870B"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46374) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOmlm-0000MP-E4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:56:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOmle-0002iy-0n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:56:34 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-x22c.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::22c]:59894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOmld-0002is-Qp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:56:25 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id w61so5856346wes.17 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 03:56:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87had9tboh.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: Thorsten Jolitz Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --Apple-Mail=_5E695427-FB33-41AD-A98B-27A5AB7C870B Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 25.9.2013, at 12:53, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> 3. The only exception to this rule are property drawers, which will >> currently not be exported by any of the backends. Nicolas >> proposed to define a derived backend that does export the property >> drawer, or he proposed to use macros to extract specific properties >> to include into the exported file. Both are viable options. > >> One possible remaining option would be to introduce user variables >> org-BACKEND-format-property-drawer-function in analogy >> org-BACKEND-format-drawer-function. This would provide an easy way >> to configure export of the property drawer as a whole, in a way >> that could be file-local. >> >> I would like to have this option > > +1 > > property drawers are just too useful to restrict them to Org-mode's > internal meta-data, and anything that makes it easier to export them > when used for 'use case' related meta-data or as simple DB is welcome. To be sure: Nicolas' argument that other functions dump data into the property drawer is completely right, and so I also think that one would hardly ever want to export the complete drawer. But through a function that selects (or deselects), it is useful. - Carsten > > -- > cheers, > Thorsten > > --Apple-Mail=_5E695427-FB33-41AD-A98B-27A5AB7C870B Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSQsFSAAoJEO+gg/nAZuwMGxMH/2WjT/3oli04iX16bd0qVpcr AxHIFjBJnEtGpMK+3iVhdZjPAaofUjJ4/N1xVz+x1gJ+BJC7n+053giWGyL6noUV MdS9ZOV+rZzDWU9w6IshDdqQyQIJ0r01lzeZUYu/uxcmDVcrhcDUCDG/bR4WgxCK AqRzEjh5j1a9yHKRL/R7k916N/ipG70WXF3GrSJ40eSydPFtZexCmYoIRk0wkycm tOSMMm8V3a7RC3OScnbizAq/e5vx7tgPCjDcyv0GSECimLcjHsQO2JJ4LynNCtn9 xx/ynrpO/Z8BYfZrZ+jFdlPH7S5PqLen3swP2ceJZRh+rrQfjS7ONN1kcSSg2ng= =/WV6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_5E695427-FB33-41AD-A98B-27A5AB7C870B--