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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [ANN] BREAKING CHANGE -- removing #+BABEL file-wide property
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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:48:44 -0400
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To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
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Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:

> ...  I've just pushed up what I
> consider to be a clean implementation.  Put briefly the new behavior is
> that "properties may be used to specify header arguments".  More
> completely...
> 
> 1. The #+PROPERTIES: (and #+BABEL:) directives no longer exist.
> 
> 2. The existing #+PROPERTY: line may now be used to specify values for
>    header arguments, e.g.,
> 
>    #+PROPERTY: results silent
> 
>    would silence all results in the current buffer.
> 
> I think this should be simple, easy to remember, and it certainly
> cleaned up the code base.  Please let me know what you think of this new
> setup.
> 

Other than "colon confusion" (having to specify ``:results silent'' on
the src block header line and ``results silent'' in the #+PROPERTY line
to get the same behavior), this looks better. Not sure what (if
anything) can or should be done about the colons.

Thanks,
Nick