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Subject: Re: Bug? SCHEDULED lines treated differently when text precedes them
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:52:00 +1000
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Cc: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>


You may also find the command M-x org-lint useful. I regularly run it on
my larger org files after an org release to spot problems in my org
files (either due to my error or changes in orgmode)

Tim

Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org> writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>
>> Planning information (SCHEDULED, DEADLINE and CLOSED keywords) must
>> appear right after the headline, per Org syntax. This is specified at
>> the first paragraph in (info "(org) Deadlines and Scheduling").
>>
>> Elswhere, only the timestamp is meaningful to Org.
>
> Thanks for the quick clarification!  I didn't see the relevant line in
> the documentation since my Emacs from Debian shows only the info
> documentation for the (outdated) Org that is bundled with Emacs [1].
>
> I understand now that Org does what it should.  However, I find this
> behavior quite dangerous.  It caught me after more than 10 years of
> using Org.  If there's a list of long-term issues with Org somewhere,
> this problem may deserve being added to it.
>
> Cheers
> Christoph
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725408


-- 
Tim Cross