Carlos Pita <carlosjosepi...@gmail.com> writes: >> Org is standardized on lower case. Uppercase is used in the manual as >> a poor man's bold, and supported for historical reasons. > > But C-c C-x p still inserts stuff like: > > :PROPERTIES: > :ARCHIVE: ... > :END: > > Maybe it should be updated or maybe I don't fully understand the > convention, perhaps it's just for blocks?
The conversation was about keywords and similar constructs (i.e. ^#+keyword). You are looking at property drawer and properties inside. There is no preference here, though internally properties in property drawer are all converted to upper case. > But then c-a-p is very lenient since it lists lower and upper case block > variants even when I typed a lower case prefix, and upper case usually > will go first in the list, hence promoting a seemingly bad practice. Could you clarify what is "c-a-p"? Best, Ihor