Re: Setting multiple variables for code blocks in one property drawer

[Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>]

Hi,

Viktor Rosenfeld <listuser36@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Schulte wrote:
>
>> Viktor Rosenfeld <listuser36@googlemail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi Eric,
>> >
>> > thanks for your input. I just pulled the latest code from git and while
>> > my original example works, the following does not:
>> >
>> > :PROPERTIES:
>> > :var: foo=1
>> > :var+: bar=2 
>> > :var+: baz=3
>> > :END:
>> >
>> > #+BEGIN_SRC sh
>> > echo foo: $foo
>> > echo bar: $bar
>> > echo baz: $baz
>> > #+END_SRC
>> >
>> 
>> Thanks for reporting, I've just pushed up a fix for this bug.
>
> Thanks for your fix. The above example now works for me.
>
> However, I've noticed a problem with inheriting var properties. They are
> inherited in a child task only if the child task itself has no var
> property. Is this the intended behavior? See the example below.
>

Yes,

The example below is the intended behavior.  The property mechanism is
not tailored to variable setting, but is rather a general mechanism for
the concatenation of property strings.  Any property specification
unless it is postfixed with a "+" will /reset/ the value of that
property to its current value.

However try replacing
> :var: foo="a"
with
> :var+: foo="a"
which is valid and should work for your use case below.

There are still some lingering issues with inheritance and Org-mode
properties which I may try to address one of these days.

Cheers,

>
> Cheers,
> Viktor
>
> * Parent task
> :PROPERTIES:
> :var: foo="1"
> :var+: bar="2"
> :END:
> ** Child task without own properties
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh
> echo foo: $foo
> echo bar: $bar
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> | foo: | 1 |
> | bar: | 2 |
>
> ** Child task with own properties
> :PROPERTIES:
> :var: foo="a"
> :END:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh
> echo foo: $foo
> echo bar: $bar
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> | foo: | a |
> | bar: |   |
>
>

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/