From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc: Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com>,
Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PROPERTIES before the first headline
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:29:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D44F2444-D90C-4CC9-9FFA-E1FC07FC16F7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B7BF7CB.8090401@cs.tu-berlin.de>
On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Stephan Schmitt wrote:
>
> Forgot to say: yes, I think it is
> intentional that this does not work
> before the first headline (properties
> belong to headlines not to files)
>
> But maybe it would make sense to allow
> for "file properties".
No, I don't think so. All the meta data belongs to entries - even if
it can be inherited from the file or even global settings.
- Carsten
>
> Also sprach Stephan Schmitt:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> you forgot the colon after PROPERTY,
>> i.e. the following line at the beginning
>> of the buffer does work:
>>
>> #+PROPERTY: myprop don't ask
>>
>> (don't forget to refresh the buffer
>> setup by typing C-c C-c with the cursor
>> in that line).
>>
>> Then the call
>>
>> (org-entry-get (point) "myprop" t)
>>
>> returns "don't ask". Note the third
>> argument (t), which allows inheritance.
>>
>> Hth,
>> Stephan
>>
>> Also sprach Christian Wittern:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Extending my use of org-mode has left
>>> me running into another wall: I would
>>> like to set some custom properties
>>> globally for the whole file, before
>>> everything else. There does not seem
>>> to be a way to do this
>>>
>>> #+PROPERTY myprop don't ask
>>>
>>> and having the :PROPERTY: drawer after
>>> the #+ lines also does not seem to
>>> work: Whenever I try to use the API
>>> functions to get at the property, I am
>>> told that I am before the first
>>> headling (which I know). So, is this
>>> behavior intentional? And if yes, is
>>> there a way to work around this?
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>
>>>
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- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-17 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-17 4:20 PROPERTIES before the first headline Christian Wittern
2010-02-17 14:01 ` Stephan Schmitt
2010-02-17 14:06 ` Stephan Schmitt
2010-02-17 14:28 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-02-17 14:29 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-02-18 1:50 ` Christian Wittern
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