Re: [Orgmode] Drawers for plain old stuff
On 05/05/2008 06:29 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: the drawer cannot contain a headline, i.e. a line starting with one or several stars followed by a space character. Most likely, this is what was causing you problems? Exactly. A case I can think of---perhaps not convincing?---for regular expression of drawer names is a file with many pasted in, lengthy notes or data sets. So as to be able to distinguish them without opening them, one might wish to title them: :DATA-PROFILE1: :DATA-PROFILE2X: :DATA-TRANSECT_A: :DATA-SALINITY-2008-04-29: An extremely simple regular expression would be DATA.* . One can argue, convincingly, that each data set would best be stored in a file, and could be linked to. I did have two sets of calendars from 1984 and 1985 that were not huge, but were in the way. I can as easily entitle each with a headline, then brace them in :CACHE: drawers. You have convinced me, but I hope I would not bore you by asking you for comments about this. Perhaps a simpler solution here is to use the ARCHIVE tag, e.g., * DATA-PROFILE1 :ARCHIVE: * DATA-PROFILE2X :ARCHIVE: * DATA-TRANSECT_A :ARCHIVE: * DATA-SALINITY-2008-04-29 :ARCHIVE: This is especially useful if you already have these lines as headlines (as you've indicated above) and just want to get them out of the way, even when doing visibility cycling. Just do C-c C-x C-a on each headline you want to hide. Dan ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Drawers for plain old stuff
the drawer cannot contain a headline, i.e. a line starting with one or several stars followed by a space character. Most likely, this is what was causing you problems? Exactly. A case I can think of---perhaps not convincing?---for regular expression of drawer names is a file with many pasted in, lengthy notes or data sets. So as to be able to distinguish them without opening them, one might wish to title them: :DATA-PROFILE1: :DATA-PROFILE2X: :DATA-TRANSECT_A: :DATA-SALINITY-2008-04-29: An extremely simple regular expression would be DATA.* . One can argue, convincingly, that each data set would best be stored in a file, and could be linked to. I did have two sets of calendars from 1984 and 1985 that were not huge, but were in the way. I can as easily entitle each with a headline, then brace them in :CACHE: drawers. You have convinced me, but I hope I would not bore you by asking you for comments about this. Thank you very much for your helpful answer, verifying what I suspected from experiments. Alan ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Drawers for plain old stuff
On May 3, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: I finally got drawers to work to hide some plain old stuff that is too massive to be in the way all the time. Is it me, or are drawers somewhat capricious?I had a drawer working, then moved more stuff into it, and it cannot find the :END: line anymore. So here are a few questions. - Can I have two drawers by the same name in a file Yes. - What kind of information is forbidden in a drawer (that will not enable the finding of the :END: line)? You cannot nest drawers, a drawer ends at the first :END: line, the end must be before the next headline. - Can I make up names for Drawers on the fly? Maybe a regular expression name would be configured? You can globally define the drawers using the variable `org-drawers'. Or you can have a #+DRAWERS: CLOCK PROPERTIES HIDETHIS HIDETHAT TOOBIG TOOUGLY line in the buffer. Just press C-c C-c after changing the line and you are good do go. There is currently no way to define a regular expression for this. Possible, but you would need to come up with a convincing use case before I would implement this. - Are blank lines anethema to drawers? No. - Is there a size limit? No. However, the drawer cannot contain a headline, i.e. a line starting with one or several stars followed by a space character. Most likely, this is what was causing you problems? - Carsten Thank you, as I think this is a great feature. Org-mode is becoming more and more interesting as I begin to understand some of the complexities. Alan ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
