Re: org-use-property-inheritance not working?

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 29 May 2015, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this to be expected? I always thought, that the properties are
>>> hierarchical, and that the ones from the lower levels / headers are used
>>> as well?
>>>
>>
>> I would have thought this, too.
>
> Property inheritance doesn't work that way. 
>
> It only means that it will look higher in the hierarchy if current entry
> doesn't have the property you want. This is explained in
> `org-entry-get-with-inheritance' docstring:
>
>   "Get PROPERTY of entry or content at point, search higher levels if needed.
>    The search will stop at the first ancestor which has the property
>    defined."

OK - but this behavior is not influenced by the variable
org-use-property-inheritance. So what is the meaning of the variable
then?


Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Here, current entry has the property, so it ignores the one above.

>
>
> Regards,

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