Re: [RFC] Document level property drawer

[Gustav Wikström]

Hi,

> One issue for me is the positioning of the level 0 property drawer.
> Having the requirement for that drawer starting in the very first
> line is too strong for me. I guess one would at least like to have
> the option to add some configuration with the ‘-*-...-*-’ construct
> which currently only works in the first line.

Hmm, that should work right now. 0..n comment lines are supposed to be
allowed anyways. I can debug that a bit later to see if something has
gone amiss.

> Further I think one would also like to place #+: configuration lines
> there in particular the #+title: line. What about allowing lines
> starting with character # above the level 0 property drawer? And put
> a newly created level 0 property drawer below the first line in the
> file that does not start with #?

The first patch allowed both coments ("# "-lines) and keyword lines
(#+...:) as well. But I removed keyword lines for now to start with a
bit more strict definition, per request from Nicolas. I think the
parser will be happy if there is as little information abouve the
drawer as possible, since it will have to retrace itself from the
first line of the buffer every time it needs to verify that the drawer
actually is the "proper" property drawer. If that makes sense. So the
more restrictive we can allow us to be, the better the performance and
the easier it will be to understand where the drawer goes. And less
complexity.

Happy to get more feedback on that decision though!

Thanks! Gustav