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. Thanks -- Eric -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
