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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
Subject: Re: About commit named "Allow multi-line properties to be specified
 in property blocks"
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:22:20 +0100
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To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>

Hi,

Having followed the thread on Babel and properties after the removal 
of the #+BABEL headers, I understand the motivation for introducing this.

But I share Nicolas' feelings that a property block doesn't rhyme with 
existing usage of blocks and properties.

There were many other ideas that came up:

1. PROPERTY+ lines (as discussed in Eric's message above).

2. A similar approach to the table formula editor (C-c ') for properties.

3. Allowing some properties to accumulate values, in particular making 
the :var: property for Babel blocks cumulative (slightly different 
versions suggested by Eric and Darlan; either would require some 
changes to Org's property handling), and

4. My own idea of allowing any defined property to be passed as an 
argument to src blocks (which would require some changes to how Babel 
reads its :var header args).

Solutions 1-2 would solve the long lines problem. Solutions 2-4 would 
avoid introducing new syntax (#+BEGIN_PROPERTY or #+PROPERTY+) largely 
to make up for having removed old syntax (#+BABEL). Solutions 3-4 
would have wide-ranging effects and would need some careful study, but 
I think the advantages might outweigh the risks.

Yours,
Christian