Re: [O] :session question -- and changes to #+Property: syntax

[Rainer M Krug]

Andreas Leha <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Achim,
>
> Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Eric Schulte writes:
>>> As I recall I was fully in favor of applying these changes, however I am
>>> not qualified to address the changes to property behaviors.  Hopefully
>>> someone who works more on that side of things can address those aspects.
>>
>> I am still hoping that one of the users that was asking for a way to
>> specify header args at a finer granularity than just file variables
>> would have a say.
>>
>> As a clarification: I'm not changing property syntax at all, I'm adding
>> new properties that happen to have values that look like the header
>> arguments to a source block.  I've also implemented default
>> (non-language-specific) header arguments just now.  Unless you use the
>> new property names none of the current behaviour changes (I do think the
>> old properties should be removed some time later when people had time to
>> convert their documents), but using the new property names will take
>> precedence.  This means if you specify 'cache "yes"' and also
>> 'header-args :cache "no"' via properties, then the latter will take
>> effect.
>>
>> Documentation and tests are still missing, but it shouldn't take too
>> long I hope.
>>
>
> I just applied your patches.  Besides a quick test that went very well,
> I can not say much.  The functionality is exactly what would help me a
> lot to separate session information for R and shell blocks.  But given
> the example in the code, this is known to you.
>
> I would love to see that functionality in org and did not experience any
> problems after applying the patches.

OK - I will change my syntax to the new property syntax and report back,
likely not before middle of the week.

Thanks,

Rainer

>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
>
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