From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Duration Tally Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:00:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20070613134706.GA10452@odin.demosthenes.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0YS8-0001Do-Nz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:48:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0YS8-0001Db-Fo for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:48:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0YS8-0001DY-6E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:48:40 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0YS7-0004lL-O6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:48:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eddward DeVilla Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Jun 13, 2007, at 17:33, Eddward DeVilla wrote: > I'm starting to wonder if it would be useful to have a general > format for properties (or choose some other word) to be associated > with a heading or todo item. It seems the heading is getting a little > crowded. > > Would it be reasonable to say that a list of non-whitespace > listing following the heading with a format of "key: value..." are > special. (Or a table might be nice. I like tables.:) org-mode could > provide an interface to get a plist or alist of them for a heading to > simplify writing now features based on them. One of the advantages of using plain text for notes files like we do with Org-mode is, that you can of course implement any system you like to store additional information. Keyword lists, tables, anything. So the discussion must be about how you would like Org-mode to make use of such data. Obviously it would be easy to write (as you suggest) a little function that returns all this data as, say, a property list. But then you would still need to use it in some way. Are you suggesting tis as a feature where some users (those who can write Lisp code) write their own extensions? That is certainly an option. Are you also envisioning ways how Org-mode should use this? Here are tow ideas: - a LOCATION keyword would be useful for exporting to iCalendar, this was already proposed by Bastien a while ago. - We could allow the TAGS match to set conditions based on these keywords. Right now, a tags match can say "LEVEL=2" to require entries with putline level 2. In a similar way one could allow "LOCATION=Paris" or whatever, that would be something quite easily implemented. Nothing of this will be in todays release, obviously, this needs more careful thinking. Thanks for starting this discussion. - Carsten