From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: About commit named "Allow multi-line properties to be specified in property blocks" Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:42:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87k47ic77p.fsf@altern.org> References: <87vcr5c76e.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLmJ3-0000Ck-8i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:41:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLmJ1-0003Ek-UP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:41:25 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:34444) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLmJ1-0003EZ-Kf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:41:23 -0400 Received: by wwe3 with SMTP id 3so902764wwe.30 for ; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:41:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Samuel Wales's message of "Wed, 2 Nov 2011 14:05:27 -0700") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Samuel Wales Cc: Org Mode List , Nicolas Goaziou Dear Samuel, I like the way you frame the issue and the solution you are sketching. I am not fund of a "dedicated top-level entry for all file-level control purposes" because it transforms the ambiguity about keywords' scope into an ambiguity about structure: IMHO a subtree should never be something that you always want to remove when exporting. But allowing a top-level :PROPERTIES: drawer with properties whose scope is the entire file looks like a good idea to me. How other would feel about this? -- Bastien