Re: Sharing variables between source blocks without session

["Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Friday, 19 Mar 2021 at 14:59, Loris Bennett wrote:
>> To be honest, I find it is a wee bit confusing that it's
>>
>>   #+PROPERTY: header-args:sh :var user="loris"
>>
>> *without* a colon after the language (if I add it, there is not error,
>> but the variable is just not set) but
>>
>>   :PROPERTIES:
>>   :header-args:sh: :var user="loris"
>>   :END:
>
> When in a property drawer, the name of the property you want to set is
> enclosed within a pair of :s.  When in a #+PROPERTY statement, there is
> no need for the :s, just the name.  It's not about the language part of
> it at all.

Thanks for the clarification.  I didn't think it was about the language
part - I was just using the position describe which colon I meant.  The
colon gets to do quite a lot of work in Org :-)

Cheers,

Loris

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