Forgot to say: yes, I think it is intentional that this does not work before the first headline (properties belong to headlines not to files)
But maybe it would make sense to allow for "file properties". Also sprach Stephan Schmitt: > Hi Christian, > > you forgot the colon after PROPERTY, > i.e. the following line at the beginning > of the buffer does work: > > #+PROPERTY: myprop don't ask > > (don't forget to refresh the buffer > setup by typing C-c C-c with the cursor > in that line). > > Then the call > > (org-entry-get (point) "myprop" t) > > returns "don't ask". Note the third > argument (t), which allows inheritance. > > Hth, > Stephan > > Also sprach Christian Wittern: >> Hi there, >> >> Extending my use of org-mode has left >> me running into another wall: I would >> like to set some custom properties >> globally for the whole file, before >> everything else. There does not seem >> to be a way to do this >> >> #+PROPERTY myprop don't ask >> >> and having the :PROPERTY: drawer after >> the #+ lines also does not seem to >> work: Whenever I try to use the API >> functions to get at the property, I am >> told that I am before the first >> headling (which I know). So, is this >> behavior intentional? And if yes, is >> there a way to work around this? >> >> All the best, >> >> Christian >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode -- -------------------------------------------- Stephan Schmitt Neural Information Processing Group Fac. IV - Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Berlin University of Technology Office: +49 30 - 314 24 158 Mobile: +49 179 - 593 84 48 Email: echo 'drmabuse at cs x tu-berlin x de' \ | sed -e 's/ x /\./g' -e 's/ at /@/' -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
