check if properties drawer exists before creating or manipulating?

check if properties drawer exists before creating or manipulating?

[Matt Price]

(still trying to set properties automatically when a minor-mode is
set, see first message in thread)

Is there a simple way to check if the properties drawer exists before
creating one?
I'm trying to add a hook to org-insert-heading-hook that will create a
property drawer if one doesn't exist; I don't want to create a bunch
of independent properties drawers.

Thanks!

Matt

Re: check if properties drawer exists before creating or manipulating?

[Nick Dokos]

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> (still trying to set properties automatically when a minor-mode is
> set, see first message in thread)
>
> Is there a simple way to check if the properties drawer exists before
> creating one?
> I'm trying to add a hook to org-insert-heading-hook that will create a
> property drawer if one doesn't exist; I don't want to create a bunch
> of independent properties drawers.
>

Why can't you set properties directly with org-set-property? It'll
create the drawer if it does not exist and reuse the existing drawer
if it does.

Nick

check if properties drawer exists before creating or manipulating?

[Matt Price]

Is there a simple way to check if the properties drawer exists before
creating one?
I'm trying to add a hook to org-insert-heading-hook that will create a
property drawer if one doesn't exist (see my earlier email, in which I
ask,

Re: check if properties drawer exists before creating or manipulating?

[Marcin Borkowski]

Dnia 2013-10-31, o godz. 10:18:01
Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> napisał(a):

> Is there a simple way to check if the properties drawer exists before
> creating one?
> I'm trying to add a hook to org-insert-heading-hook that will create a
> property drawer if one doesn't exist (see my earlier email, in which I
> ask,
> 

What about narrowing to the current entry and then searching for the
regex in the variable org-property-drawer-re (which see)?

Hth,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University