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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: are heading properties always strings?
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:48:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uuxbgcu.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ51ETrjjVacweXRvuiWcBHMHCPdX+JONbwBDceNpsdGA4f1bA@mail.gmail.com> (John Kitchin's message of "Wed, 1 Jan 2014 09:36:38 -0500")

Hi John,

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> 2. I guess it makes sense that properties would be read as strings,
> but that wasn't obvious from the documentation they would be strings.
>
> 3. It also wasn't obvious that you have to give org-entry-put a
> string. If you try to set it to an integer, you get strange control
> characters like ^A or ^C.

Can you tell which place in the documentation you expect to find this
information?  In functions' docstrings or in the manual?

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-03  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-01 14:36 are heading properties always strings? John Kitchin
2014-01-03  8:48 ` Bastien [this message]
2014-01-03  8:52   ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-03 10:31     ` Bastien
2014-01-03 21:14       ` John Kitchin
2014-01-04 13:49         ` Bastien

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