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From: "Martin Edström" <meedstrom@runbox.com>
To: "Sébastien Gendre" <seb@k-7.ch>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Properties drawer at buffer/file level
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:03:13 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1sYTmD-0006Yh-5H@rmmprod06.runbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87msm0xk2s.fsf@k-7.ch>

The property drawer has to come first for technical reasons.  Just try manually moving the property drawer beneath the title, then do

    M-: (org-entry-get nil "ID")

and what do you get? Nil.

Martin

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:02:35 +0200, Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> If I set a property with `(org-set-property)' when the point is at the
> top of a buffer, before any heading, I got a property drawer inserted at
> in the first line of the buffer.
> 
> But if I already have buffer settings, like "#+TITLE:", the property
> drawer is put before these settings.
> 
> Is it possible to tell Org-mode to put the buffer properties drawer after
> the buffer settings ?
> 
> 
> More context:
> 
> I try to use Org-roam to take notes about books I read. With this, I got
> 1 file per book, with the title of the book set as buffer setting
> "#+TITLE:".
> 
> But when I add other information (like author, editor, etc)
> into a property drawer of my note, these additional info are inserted
> before the title.
> 
> On a new note, I got this:
> 
>      :PROPERTIES:
>      :ID:       A-unique-ID
>      :Author:   Author Name
>      :Editor:   Editor Name
>      :END:
>      #+Title: Book title
> 
> 
> Instead of this:
> 
>      #+Title: Book title
>      :PROPERTIES:
>      :ID:       A-unique-ID
>      :Author:   Author Name
>      :Editor:   Editor Name
>      :END:
> 
> Which is visually very different from what I got when the property
> drawer is set for a heading. And the actual result feel less intuitive
> than what I got with heading.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> -------
> Gendre Sébastien




  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-31 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-29 16:02 Properties drawer at buffer/file level Sébastien Gendre
2024-07-29 17:03 ` Martin Edström [this message]
2024-07-29 17:15   ` Sébastien Gendre
2024-07-29 17:57     ` Martin Edström
2024-07-29 18:41       ` Sébastien Gendre
2024-07-29 17:09 ` Martin Edström

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