From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: About commit named "Allow multi-line properties to be specified in property blocks" Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:06:37 +0100 Message-ID: <8062iuirgi.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <87vcr5c76e.fsf@gmail.com> <87vcr5j5a5.fsf@gmail.com> <4EAF118C.8050806@christianmoe.com> <87hb2mo7ek.fsf@altern.org> <87obwuh19t.fsf@gmail.com> <87hb2mdmi9.fsf@gnu.org> <87obwtgip9.fsf@gmail.com> <87sjm5ez0f.fsf@gmail.com> <4eb42564.059dec0a.5ffc.7ff5@mx.google.com> <877h3felm2.fsf@gmail.com> <87ty6ffuu6.fsf@gmail.com> <80d3d3neof.fsf@somewhere.org> <80aa87lyu9.fsf@somewhere.org> <4eb93fd2.035f650a.6940.7d55@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: 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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Darlan, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira wrote: > Unless I have missed something in the e-mails, the new syntax is to > concatenate new variables to the var property. Not modifying the values > currently stored in some variable. That is, > #+property: var foo=2 > #+property: var+ 5 > (not specifying the variable name ) should not be allowed By showing this example, I wanted to show that this proposition (of Rainer) seemed wrong to me. This is much too complex, and I think there is no use case to support such a thing. > and > #+property: var foo=2 > #+property: var+ foo=5 > #+property: var+ bar="bar" > should result in foo=5 and bar="bar". Yep -- iff the comma is implied (implicitly), what's not currently the case. > Is modifying a variable also a new feature? Not (to me). Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban