Hi Eric, Eric Schulte wrote: > Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: >> Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: >>> > Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >> I have just pushed up a change to the Org-mode git repository which >>> >> removes support for #+BABEL lines. Please use the more general >>> >> #+PROPERTIES lines instead. >>> > >>> > Coming late to the dance - sorry. I think that's very confusing. >>> > "Property" is an overloaded term in org: we now have the :PROPERTIES: >>> > drawer, the #+PROPERTY line and the #+PROPERTIES line (singular and >>> > plural forms are already pretty bad). >>> >>> Do the #+PROPERTY and #+PROPERTIES lines have different semantics? >> >> I think so: see section 7.1 for a use of the former. AFAICT, the latter >> only applies to code block header arguments. > > Oh! > > Thank you for making this clear, I had assumed that #+PROPERTIES: lines > were an integral part of Org-mode which code block header arguments were > simply making use of. Having read the section of the info manual you > point out above I see that I was mistaken. I've just pushed up what I > consider to be a clean implementation. Put briefly the new behavior is > that "properties may be used to specify header arguments". More > completely... > > 1. The #+PROPERTIES: (and #+BABEL:) directives no longer exist. > > 2. The existing #+PROPERTY: line may now be used to specify values for > header arguments, e.g., > > #+PROPERTY: results silent > > would silence all results in the current buffer. > > I think this should be simple, easy to remember, and it certainly > cleaned up the code base. Please let me know what you think of this new > setup.
I just have one question, as I'm puzzled by the lack of `:' in front of the "properties": how do we distinguish the argument "value" from the argument "name"? For example, how do we translate, in the new syntax, #+BABEL: :results output code append (where `:results' is the "name", and `output', `code' and `append' are "values")? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
