From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Document level property drawer
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 23:24:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84imogzd6q.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: HE1PR02MB3033A07E71B19D33A00B235EDA6E0@HE1PR02MB3033.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
Gustav Wikström <gustav@whil.se> writes:
[...]
> Sooo, a separate branch is created in the Org mode repository named
> "next". I'm not entirely sure how we're supposed to work with it. But
> I've anyways pushed my (non-breaking) patch there.
Okay, thanks. I try to follow the development on the 'next' branch.
[...]
>> Noteworthy observations AFAICT:
>>
>> 1. I could not translate my personal "#+TODO: . N ~ | x c g >" into a
>> respective :TODO: property.
>
> Yes, that's true. The reason is that there is no TODO-property that
> fits in property drawers right now. I.e. special properties such as
> TODO, TAGS, priority, scheduling and deadlines that have special
> syntax for the outline still have no defined meaning for outline level
> 0. I ofc. think that's an oversight ;) But I may also be a bit crazy.
>
> A conclusion to draw from that, that may be worth writing more about,
> is that the property drawer for node level 0 will not be able to
> replace all file-level keywords that exist today. Only properties that
> currently can also be defined in property drawers in the outline will
> work in the property drawer on level 0. Makes sense?
Absolutely.
> The idea I had for all the other keywords that apply for the whole
> file was to create another drawer, what I called a settings drawer.
> Because the TODO-keyword you refer to above really is a setting that
> you're making for the current file, much the same as when you make
> changes in global, folder local or file local variables using the
> standard emacs framework.
The idea of a settings drawer makes sense AFAICS.
For the special case of TODO-keywords one could think about defining
them per subtree. Possibly there are some low hanging fruit among the
whole-file-properties that have a natural interpretation per subtree.
> I've attached an investigation I did of the world of Org mode
> keywords. It was done quite a while back and some things in there are
> subjective and may not represent my current picture of the "ideal".
> Nonetheless, maybe an interesting read for the ... other crazy people
> out there?
Okay, I'll have a look at your investigation. ;)
BTW this document looks great to me at the first glance.
Thanks,
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-22 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-20 2:28 [RFC] Document level property drawer Gustav Wikström
2019-10-22 21:24 ` Marco Wahl [this message]
2019-10-23 8:43 ` Marco Wahl
2019-10-23 8:59 ` Gustav Wikström
2019-10-24 21:01 ` Gustav Wikström
2019-10-25 12:58 ` Marco Wahl
2019-10-23 16:08 ` Adam Porter
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-24 22:29 Gustav Wikström
2019-10-06 6:02 Gustav Wikström
2019-10-06 5:35 Gustav Wikström
2019-10-05 18:20 Gustav Wikström
2019-10-06 0:51 ` Adam Porter
2019-10-02 20:29 Gustav Wikström
2019-09-30 22:09 Gustav Wikström
2019-10-03 18:31 ` Adam Porter
2019-10-04 10:38 ` Marco Wahl
2019-10-06 1:01 ` Adam Porter
2019-10-07 7:46 ` Marco Wahl
2019-09-29 10:27 Gustav Wikström
2019-09-29 19:13 ` Marco Wahl
2019-09-30 16:01 ` Adam Porter
2019-09-30 20:46 ` Marco Wahl
2019-10-01 12:38 ` Sebastian Miele
2020-01-13 21:52 ` Marco Wahl
2020-01-15 8:18 ` Sebastian Miele
2020-02-01 19:59 ` Marco Wahl
2019-10-01 13:55 ` Adam Porter
2019-10-02 10:29 ` Marco Wahl
2019-10-03 18:06 ` Adam Porter
2019-10-04 11:05 ` Marco Wahl
2019-10-06 1:05 ` Adam Porter
2019-10-06 5:10 ` Matt Price
2019-10-15 17:49 ` Gustav Wikström
2019-10-16 0:48 ` Adam Porter
2019-10-16 9:48 ` Marco Wahl
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