From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, rpgoldman@sift.info
Subject: Re: Possible bug in ordered tasks
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:55:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eifvdjsm.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5896B53A-BDA5-4D02-9DD5-7121A8DB0165@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Fri\, 25 Jun 2010 16\:12\:59 +0200")
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jun 25, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
>
>> Question: what is the proper way to get a NIL into a property? Are
>> we
>> to use () instead of "nil"? Or are property values always interpreted
>> as strings?
>>
>> Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question!
>
> Not a stupid question at all.
>
> There is no way, currently. Property values are string - the only
> way to make
> org-entry-get return nil is to not have the property defined at all.
I've wanted a similar thing in the past for the LOGGING property where
the parent task has special logging set via the LOGGING property but I
want to undo that for some of the child tasks so they use the default
logging setup.
Having a way to undefine a property would be good in general I think.
-Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-25 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-18 15:42 Possible bug in ordered tasks Robert Goldman
2010-06-25 7:03 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 13:23 ` Robert Goldman
2010-06-25 14:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 14:48 ` Robert Goldman
2010-06-25 16:21 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-25 18:55 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2010-06-26 5:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-26 11:34 ` Bernt Hansen
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