Re: Drawers for plain old stuff

["Daniel J. Sinder" <djsinder@gmail.com>]

On 05/05/2008 06:29 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> 
>> the drawer cannot contain a headline, i.e. a line starting with one or 
>> several stars followed by a space character. Most likely, this is what 
>> was causing you problems? 
> Exactly.
> 
> A case I can think of---perhaps not convincing?---for regular expression 
> of drawer names is a file with many pasted in, lengthy notes or data 
> sets.  So as to be able to distinguish them without opening them, one 
> might wish to title them:
> 
>    :DATA-PROFILE1:
> 
>    :DATA-PROFILE2X:
> 
>    :DATA-TRANSECT_A:
> 
>    :DATA-SALINITY-2008-04-29:
> 
> An extremely simple regular expression would be "DATA.*" .  One can 
> argue, convincingly, that each data set would best be stored in a file, 
> and could be linked to. 
> I did have two sets of calendars from 1984 and 1985 that were not huge, 
> but were in the way.   I can as easily entitle each with a headline, 
> then brace them in :CACHE: drawers. 
> You have convinced me, but I hope I would not bore you by asking you for 
> comments about this.

Perhaps a simpler solution here is to use the ARCHIVE tag, e.g.,

* DATA-PROFILE1       :ARCHIVE:
* DATA-PROFILE2X      :ARCHIVE:
* DATA-TRANSECT_A     :ARCHIVE:
* DATA-SALINITY-2008-04-29  :ARCHIVE:

This is especially useful if you already have these lines as 
headlines (as you've indicated above) and just want to get them out 
of the way, even when doing visibility cycling.  Just do C-c C-x C-a 
on each headline you want to hide.

Dan