From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dustin Lacewell Subject: Inheriting Properties Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:43:28 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QD0io-0002UL-Lu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:43:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QD0in-0000fc-O4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:43:30 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:44401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QD0in-0000fJ-IM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:43:29 -0400 Received: by mail-pw0-f41.google.com with SMTP id 10so89903pwi.0 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:43:28 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, I'm a new org-mode user and I'm just starting to use it in a real way. One feature that seems to be missing is the ability to specify properties on a parent-node that are inherited by the children, but is not applied to the parent itself. An example of where you might need this is: * Servers :PROPERTIES: :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %ip :END ** foo.example.com :PROPERTIES: :ip:x.x.x.x :END ** bar.example.com :PROPERTIES: :ip:x.x.x.x :END If there was a way to apply the root properties to the children but not the parent itself, then column mode would work as expected but would not apply the columns specification to the "Servers" node where it is not relevant. As it is now, each child-entry needs it's own column specification.