Re: [O] About commit named "Allow multi-line properties to be specified in property blocks"

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Eric,

(Due to a high "buzyness" level, I've been a bit out of the discussion for one
week or so)

Eric Schulte wrote:
> The attached patch implements this latest "propname+" suggestion.  When
> applied it results in the behavior shown below.
>
> I'm inclined to go with this as a solution moving forward.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> #+property: var    foo=1
> #+property: var+ , bar=2
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (+ foo bar)
> #+end_src

So, in a way, adding the + after `var' is how you tell Org that this is an
accumulated property?

Two questions:

1. Why not the + after the property keyword (property+)? I guess because it's
   more against other aspects of Org internals?  Anyway, putting + after the
   var sounds as right to me -- maybe better even if we consider that you
   declare var as accumulated, writing so.

2. Must there be a first `var' without `+'?  Accepted, tolerated or wrong?  I
   mean, I'm sure that, due to heavy file editing, we'll sometimes have:

   #+property: var+   foo=1
   #+property: var+ , bar=2
   #+begin_src emacs-lisp
     (+ foo bar)
   #+end_src

> #+results:
> : 3
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (org-entry-get (point) "var" t)
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> : foo=1, bar=2
>
> * overwriting a file-wide property
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :var:      foo=7
>   :END:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   foo
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> : 7
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (org-entry-get (point) "var" t)
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> : foo=7
>
> * appending to a file-wide property
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :var+:      , baz=3
>   :END:

To be honest, the only thing that I dislike is the comma in the above line.
Not intuitive at all. Quite hard to read.

Can't the comma be implicitly added by the `+' after the property name?

That would allow one to simply write:

   * appending to a file-wide property
     :PROPERTIES:
     :var+:        baz=3
     :END:

and have the correct values.

> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (+ foo bar baz)
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> : 6
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (org-entry-get (point) "var" t)
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> : foo=1, bar=2, baz=3

Thanks.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban