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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One broken property drawer prevents setting of any property
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 07:56:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k39df36v.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqdzebq0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 06 May 2014 13:07:51 +0800")

Hi Eric,

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> By passing the FORCE argument to `org-get-property-block', the broken
> block ends up getting silently repaired, and everything works as normal.

Can you show this as a patch?

> I'm not sure, however, that silently repairing things without the user's
> knowledge is the right thing to do...

We can warn the user with a temporary message, or ask him for
confirmation.  Or provide a helper command to repair drawers and
advertize it instead of throwing an error.

I'll look into this after you send me the patch.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-23  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06  5:07 One broken property drawer prevents setting of any property Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-23  5:56 ` Bastien [this message]
2014-05-23  8:55   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-23  9:07     ` Bastien

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