Re: Re: does #+PROPERTY still exist ?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> 
> > Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr>  wrote:
> >
> >> In the org manual node `(org) Property syntax' one can read the
> >> following:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --8<-------------coupez ici--------------début-------------->8---
> >>    If you want to set properties that can be inherited by any entry
> >> in a file, use a line like 
> >>      #+PROPERTY: NDisks_ALL 1 2 3 4
> >> --8<-------------coupez ici---------------fin--------------->8---
> >> 
> >> However this does not seem to work.
> >
> > In what way does it fail to work?
> >
> > AFAICT, it works as advertised: after inserting the above line, I try to
> > insert a NDisks property with 
> >
> >        C-c C-x p NDisks<RET>5<RET>
> >
> > and it complains ("No match").  If I use e.g. 3 instead of 5, the
> > property is inserted.
> >
> 
> In the below example 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> #+PROPERTY: Age 25
> #+COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Age
> 
> * Heading 1
> * Heading 2
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> When I try to use column view to edit the property it is not using the
> format that I mentioned at the file level.
> 
> But the following one works
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> * Heading 1
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :Age: 25
>   :COLUMNS: %25ITEM %Age
>   :END:
> * Heading 2
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Looks like the file level settings are not working.
> 

If I evaluate the form

    (org-entry-get (point) "Age" t)

with the point at any heading, I get "25". OTOH, even with
org-use-property-inheritance set to t, column view does not
show it. Ergo, it's a column view bug.

In org-columns-compute, I see

      ...
      (while (re-search-backward re beg t)
	(setq sumpos (match-beginning 0)
	      last-level level
	      level (org-outline-level)
	      val (org-entry-get nil property)
              ...

I suspect the val line needs to be

	      val (org-entry-get nil property org-use-property-inheritance)

instead.

HTH,
Nick