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From: "Sébastien Gendre" <seb@k-7.ch>
To: "Martin Edström" <meedstrom@runbox.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Properties drawer at buffer/file level
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:15:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6c8xgpy.fsf@k-7.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1sYTmD-0006Yh-5H@rmmprod06.runbox> ("Martin Edström"'s message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:03:13 +0200 (CEST)")

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I get nil.



"Martin Edström" <meedstrom@runbox.com> writes:

> The property drawer has to come first for technical reasons.  Just try manually moving the property drawer beneath the title, then do
>
>     M-: (org-entry-get nil "ID")
>
> and what do you get? Nil.
>
> Martin
>
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:02:35 +0200, Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> 
>> If I set a property with `(org-set-property)' when the point is at the
>> top of a buffer, before any heading, I got a property drawer inserted at
>> in the first line of the buffer.
>> 
>> But if I already have buffer settings, like "#+TITLE:", the property
>> drawer is put before these settings.
>> 
>> Is it possible to tell Org-mode to put the buffer properties drawer after
>> the buffer settings ?
>> 
>> 
>> More context:
>> 
>> I try to use Org-roam to take notes about books I read. With this, I got
>> 1 file per book, with the title of the book set as buffer setting
>> "#+TITLE:".
>> 
>> But when I add other information (like author, editor, etc)
>> into a property drawer of my note, these additional info are inserted
>> before the title.
>> 
>> On a new note, I got this:
>> 
>>      :PROPERTIES:
>>      :ID:       A-unique-ID
>>      :Author:   Author Name
>>      :Editor:   Editor Name
>>      :END:
>>      #+Title: Book title
>> 
>> 
>> Instead of this:
>> 
>>      #+Title: Book title
>>      :PROPERTIES:
>>      :ID:       A-unique-ID
>>      :Author:   Author Name
>>      :Editor:   Editor Name
>>      :END:
>> 
>> Which is visually very different from what I got when the property
>> drawer is set for a heading. And the actual result feel less intuitive
>> than what I got with heading.
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> -------
>> Gendre Sébastien

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-29 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-29 16:02 Properties drawer at buffer/file level Sébastien Gendre
2024-07-29 17:03 ` Martin Edström
2024-07-29 17:15   ` Sébastien Gendre [this message]
2024-07-29 17:57     ` Martin Edström
2024-07-29 18:41       ` Sébastien Gendre
2024-07-29 17:09 ` Martin Edström

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