From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: property searches for #+CATEGORY
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:54:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D728E4E2-ED7A-4221-BCEA-7C9269EE2249@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ir4dl4kb.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
On 8Nov2007, at 5:55 AM, Bastien wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> However, I do think that Adam's initial request to make the
>> category available as a special property for queries in not
>> unreasonble. Or does anyone disagree?
>
> I'm convinced it's not unreasonable :)
>
>> I am not sure, though, if the #+CATEGORY category should be
>> available with `org-entry-get', because it would then be very
>> hard for the property API to make a difference between a value
>> that is intimately associated with the current entry, and a
>> value that might be derived by some other mechanism. So here I
>> differ somewhat from Adam's feeling that category is just like
>> TODO or a tag. It is different.
>
> Then a search like CATEGORY="cat" would also return entries which
> CATEGORY property is not "cat"... ok, maybe this doesn't hurt that
> much for search purposes. But I expect someone will come in three
> month complaining that `org-entry-get' didn't return the category,
> even though he set it up through #+CATEGORY.
OK, here is what we will do. We will make `org-entry-get' return
a value from #+CATEGORY if the INHERIT flag is set in the call
to `org-entry-get'. In this case the value is inherited not from
a higher level entry, but for the "file environment", and even
top-level outline entries can ihnerit it.
We actually already have this mechanism:
#+PROPERTY: Name Value
So we could then see
#+CATEGORY: work
as a short-hand for
#+PROPERTY: CATEGORY work
... which makes all of this suddenly look as if it was designed
like this from the beginning. I like it.
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this discussion.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-08 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-07 11:17 property searches for #+CATEGORY Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 12:49 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 12:15 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 13:23 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 13:34 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 13:59 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 14:28 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 14:52 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 16:35 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 16:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-07 18:07 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-08 4:55 ` Bastien
2007-11-08 8:54 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-11-07 14:49 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 14:32 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 14:15 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 13:52 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 17:16 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 17:23 ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-08 4:42 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 16:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-08 0:04 ` Adam Spiers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-07 23:35 Mario E. Munich
2008-12-08 16:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-09 0:33 ` Mario E. Munich
2008-12-09 1:41 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-09 6:51 ` Mario E. Munich
2008-12-07 23:39 Mario E. Munich
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