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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nested org-headlines
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:54:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw3testt.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r4nd985k.fsf@gmail.com

Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> If drawers are "greater elements" in org elements, perhaps they ought to
>> be able to contain other drawers? Or is non-nesting drawers a design
>> decision?
>
> It is a design decision.
>
> Note that "greater element" only means that the element can contain
> other elements (i.e. a paragraph.). Also, according to org-element.el
> comments:
>
>     With the exception of `headline' and `item' types, greater elements
>     cannot contain other greater elements of their own type.

That's a good thing to know.

> A drawer is a way to hide some contents (and optionally remove them from
> export) without adding any specific meaning to them. What would a drawer
> within another drawer mean: hide stuff even more?

Makes plenty of sense to me. But it's not the first time someone's asked
about ways of descending from one text level into a sub-hierarchy, and
then "popping" back out to the previous textual level. When the will is
there, tools will be abused...

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27 10:14 nested org-headlines 42 147
2012-11-28  3:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-11-28 13:19   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-11-28 13:54     ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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