Re: Drawers for plain old stuff

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On May 5, 2008, at 3:29 PM, 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.

Of course, not, I always like to get feedback and new ideas.

As for your example, I do think that headlines with a drawer below  
them would be just as useful and efficient in this case.  Seems that  
you agree, so for now: no regexp for drawer names.  But I put it on my  
list, maybe now that you suggested it, I will actually find a use for  
this.

Thanks.

- Carsten