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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: special status for state-log plain list elements?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:54:12 +0800
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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Is there any chance of building slightly on org-element's parsing of
>> plain-lists, so that it lists which represent state logs are somehow
>> noted as such? I'm imagining that `org-element-plain-list-parser' could
>> be augmented to provide a (:log t) property, or if we accept that
>> state-log lists are always unordered, the :type property could even just
>> be 'log.
>
> I don't think what is done with lists has much to do with their syntax.
> Anyway, you can write a function to find such candidates, if needed,
> without overloading the parser (for little benefit).
>
>> For that it might be nice if list items knew if they were state-change
>> notes (State "WAIT" from "TODO", etc) or plain notes (Note taken on...
>> etc).
>
> This is not really possible, unless you forbid users to arbitrary start
> an item with "State "xxx" from "xxx"" or "Note taken on", i.e., you
> bless them as parts of Org syntax. I wouldn't go that far.

Okay, I guess that was the main question I was asking. No worries, then!

Thanks,
E