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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why are special properties like CLOSED etc. not in the properties drawer?
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:52:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcyskax1.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110405133648.5e02e3e7@hsdev.com> (Marcel van der Boom's message of "Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:36:48 +0200")

Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com> writes:

> I've been wondering about this for a bit. It would make things a bit
> more consistent for me if all properties are in the 'properties'-drawer.
> Or am I missing something here?

The main reason I can think of is that this is historical.  CLOSED: was
invented long before anyone thought about the need for drawers.

Drawers are an added feature that is not needed to be able to make
org-mode useful.  I don't think there should be a requirement for having
a drawer when you mark a task done just to record the CLOSED date.
Having an option to enable this behaviour would be fine with me.

The idea of including timestamps in property drawers is a fairly recent
development in org-mode.

-Bernt

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-05 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-05 11:36 Why are special properties like CLOSED etc. not in the properties drawer? Marcel van der Boom
2011-04-05 14:52 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2011-04-05 15:59   ` Juri Krivov
2011-04-06  9:34   ` Marcel van der Boom
2011-04-05 17:27 ` Michael Brand

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