Re: Properties drawer at buffer/file level

[Sébastien Gendre]

I get nil.



"Martin Edström" <meedstrom@runbox.com> writes:

> The property drawer has to come first for technical reasons.  Just try 
> manually moving the property drawer beneath the title, then do
>
>     M-: (org-entry-get nil "ID")
>
> and what do you get? Nil.
>
> Martin
>
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:02:35 +0200, Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> 
>> If I set a property with `(org-set-property)' when the point is at the
>> top of a buffer, before any heading, I got a property drawer inserted at
>> in the first line of the buffer.
>> 
>> But if I already have buffer settings, like "#+TITLE:", the property
>> drawer is put before these settings.
>> 
>> Is it possible to tell Org-mode to put the buffer properties drawer after
>> the buffer settings ?
>> 
>> 
>> More context:
>> 
>> I try to use Org-roam to take notes about books I read. With this, I got
>> 1 file per book, with the title of the book set as buffer setting
>> "#+TITLE:".
>> 
>> But when I add other information (like author, editor, etc)
>> into a property drawer of my note, these additional info are inserted
>> before the title.
>> 
>> On a new note, I got this:
>> 
>>      :PROPERTIES:
>>      :ID:       A-unique-ID
>>      :Author:   Author Name
>>      :Editor:   Editor Name
>>      :END:
>>      #+Title: Book title
>> 
>> 
>> Instead of this:
>> 
>>      #+Title: Book title
>>      :PROPERTIES:
>>      :ID:       A-unique-ID
>>      :Author:   Author Name
>>      :Editor:   Editor Name
>>      :END:
>> 
>> Which is visually very different from what I got when the property
>> drawer is set for a heading. And the actual result feel less intuitive
>> than what I got with heading.
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> -------
>> Gendre Sébastien

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