> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Just to make sure I'm not misundertanding: did you try to re-indent the
> whole file?  You say "when I opened my org file in question I still
> saw…", so I'm not sure if you tried to re-indent, or if you merely set
> org-adapt-indentation and expected the file to be automatically
> re-indented after opening it again.

> If the :PROPERTIES: drawer is not indented after doing the following:

>     M-: (setq org-adapt-indentation 'headline-data)
>     C-x h
>     M-: (indent-for-tab-command)

> … then yes, there is a bug.

I did all this and it *did not* indent!

So I shall write a BUG report

> Sure, the reason why it is (now) nil by default is because a fair number
> of users on this list have told Org maintainers that they dislike
> indented text.

> Note that there is a difference between org-adapt-indentation set to t,
> and org-indent-mode:

> - org-adapt-indentation uses *hard* indentation (Emacs inserts
>   whitespace which is written to the file),

> - org-indent-mode uses *soft* or "visual" indentation (Emacs adds text
>   properties to shift the text, but no whitespace is written to the
>   file).


Thanks for clarifying