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Re: [O] [RFC] Rewrite `org-entry-properties' using parser
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John Kitchin |
Subject: |
Re: [O] [RFC] Rewrite `org-entry-properties' using parser |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:59:02 -0400 |
I have used the following approaches in the past:
Lisp lists, and use read later to get them.
* Some heading
:PROPERTIES:
:SUBJECT: '(subject1 subject2 subject3)
:END:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(read (org-entry-get (point) "SUBJECT"))
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
| quote | (subject1 subject2 subject3) |
* Second heading
:PROPERTIES:
:SUBJECT: subject1 subject2 subject3
:END:
delimited strings. You have to split them them yourself later if you
are using the properties in code. You can delimit on spaces, commas, etc...
depending on your subjects.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(split-string (org-entry-get (point) "SUBJECT"))
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
| subject1 | subject2 | subject3 |
They are both pretty flexible.
Erik Hetzner <address@hidden> writes:
> At Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:21:47 +0200,
> Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> here is my first take of rewriting `org-entry-properties'.
>>
>> The existing function predates the new parser and some Org variables,
>> and thus does the parsing and the property classification itself. The
>> new version leaves parsing to the parser and property classification
>> (mostly) to existing Org variables, resulting in much simpler code.
>>
>> […]
>
> Hi Thorsten,
>
> This doesn’t directly related to this work, but I have been trying to
> come up with a workflow for using org-mode for research and have had
> trouble with the fact that user properties cannot be multi-valued. So
> if a user wants to assign subjects to an entry, they need to figure
> some way to assign multiple subjects.
>
> There are workarounds, but it would be helpful if user properties
> could be multivalued. I don’t know if this is feasible given the
> current codebase; when I looked into it, it seemed pretty difficult.
>
> best, Erik
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