Re: [RFC] Change property drawer syntax

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch> writes:

> AFAIK the org-mode taskjuggler exporter was previously able to handle
> this if given the following headline:
>
> * task
>     :PROPERTIES:
>     :Effort:  1w
>     :depends: software
>     :allocate: test dev2
>     :note: "Hopefully most bugs will be found and fixed here."
>     :journalentry: 2002-03-01 "Contract with Peter not yet signed" {
>         author boss
>         alert red
>         summary -8<-
>           The paperwork is stuck with HR and I can't hunt it down.
>         ->8-
>         details -8<-
>           If we don't get the contract closed within the next week,
>           the start of the testing is at risk.
>         ->8-
>       }
>     :END:

I'm surprised it worked. Anyway, you're right, it will not anymore.

> Oh, and btw: there can be more than one journalentry. So, given this
> taskjuggler feature is not very often used and drawer machinery is not
> really suited for this use case I suggest we just drop support for it.
> Maybe the user can just squeeze the whole entry on one line interspersed
> with \ns.

I think a #+begin_journalentry ... #+end_journalentry with proper
attributes would be enough.


Regards,