From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-use-property-inheritance not working?
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 13:04:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21thy72dq.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87617bqb2c.fsf@selenimh.access.network> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Sat, 30 May 2015 00:21:47 +0200")
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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> Hello,
>
> "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 29 May 2015, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this to be expected? I always thought, that the properties are
>>> hierarchical, and that the ones from the lower levels / headers are used
>>> as well?
>>>
>>
>> I would have thought this, too.
>
> Property inheritance doesn't work that way.
>
> It only means that it will look higher in the hierarchy if current entry
> doesn't have the property you want. This is explained in
> `org-entry-get-with-inheritance' docstring:
>
> "Get PROPERTY of entry or content at point, search higher levels if needed.
> The search will stop at the first ancestor which has the property
> defined."
OK - but this behavior is not influenced by the variable
org-use-property-inheritance. So what is the meaning of the variable
then?
Cheers,
Rainer
>
> Here, current entry has the property, so it ignores the one above.
>
>
> Regards,
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-29 11:57 org-use-property-inheritance not working? Rainer M Krug
2015-05-29 19:01 ` Charles C. Berry
2015-05-29 22:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-30 11:04 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2015-05-30 22:49 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-05-31 11:46 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-05-31 22:17 ` Nicolas Goaziou
[not found] ` <m24mmrlssh.fsf@krugs.de>
2015-06-01 16:01 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-01 16:15 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-06-01 17:11 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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