>>>>> Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > Well, that's precisely the thing that doesn't scale and that Nicolas wanted > to avoid. Putting the properties at the beginning of an entry makes the > search pretty much constant time and if you find something else at the start > of the entry then you know there aren't any and can go on (this is pretty > important for making sure property inheritance works correctly, among other > things). If you could put them _anywhere_ else, you'd have to keep searching > until you either find them or you've exhausted the span of the entry.
As a user, I'm willing to pay that cost. Also, I never have other property drawers. If it were just doing (re-search-forward "^:PROPERTIES:$" (end-of-entry)), then it wouldn't matter where the properties drawer was, so long as it's understood that the search may be wrong if the user has such a string appearing elsewhere. John
