Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Hello, > > "Charles C. Berry" 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, -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: Rainer@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982