Hello,
Please find a patch for setting properties. A name is proposed when the
pointer is on a property line, the name in that line is set as default.
Changelog:
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2011-06-22 Vincent Belaïche <vincen...@users.sourceforge.net>
* org.el (org-read-property-name): Propose default proerty name value
by looking at whether current line is already some property setting.
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diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index b1edfa3..8318968 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -6591,7 +6591,7 @@ in an indirect buffer, in overview mode. You can dive into the tree in
that copy, use org-occur and incremental search to find a location.
When pressing RET or `Q', the command returns to the original buffer in
which the visibility is still unchanged. After RET is will also jump to
-the location selected in the indirect buffer and expose the headline
+the location selected in the indirect buffer and expose the headline
hierarchy above."
(interactive "P")
(let* ((org-refile-targets `((nil . (:maxlevel . ,org-goto-max-level))))
@@ -14095,7 +14095,20 @@ This is computed according to `org-property-set-functions-alist'."
"Read a property name."
(let* ((completion-ignore-case t)
(keys (org-buffer-property-keys nil t t))
- (property (org-icompleting-read "Property: " (mapcar 'list keys))))
+ (default-prop (save-excursion
+ (save-match-data
+ (beginning-of-line)
+ (and (looking-at "^\\s-*:\\([^:\n]+\\):")
+ (null (string= (match-string 1) "END"))
+ (match-string 1)))))
+ (property (org-icompleting-read
+ (concat "Property"
+ (if default-prop (concat " [" default-prop "]") "")
+ ": ")
+ (mapcar 'list keys)
+ nil nil nil nil
+ default-prop
+ )))
(if (member property keys)
property
(or (cdr (assoc (downcase property)
@@ -16120,7 +16133,7 @@ sequence appearing also before point.
Even though the matchers for math are configurable, this function assumes
that \\begin, \\(, \\[, and $$ are always used. Only the single dollar
delimiters are skipped when they have been removed by customization.
-The return value is nil, or a cons cell with the delimiter and the
+The return value is nil, or a cons cell with the delimiter and the
position of this delimiter.
This function does a reasonably good job, but can locally be fooled by
