Re: Is it possible to keep /all/ the heading properties in one place?

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
>>> Here's a list of the diverse things that I'd like to hide into
>>> :PROPERTIES:
>>>
>>> - Tags - there are always a pain to re-align, they show up as diffs in
>>>   git commits
>>> - The clock entries - they are stored in a :LOGBOOK:, separately from
>>>   :PROPERTIES:
>>> - The :SCHEDULED: and :DEADLINE: time stamps
>>
>> It is not possible to move these things into the properties drawer.
>
> Why not? What's the barrier to doing this? I think it would not only
> make the text files cleaner, but also the org.el code.

Because not everything is a node property.

TODO keywords, tags and properties are all different, and blurring the
distinction between them would not make Org easier. Note that Org
doesn't force you to use any of them.

CLOCK cannot be located within PROPERTIES drawer because it not
a key-value association. You can have multiple clocks with different
values.

SCHEDULED and DEADLINE could have been moved within PROPERTIES drawer.
It was even discussed a couple of times on this ML. However, Carsten
decided to keep them separated, mainly because such an important
information should not be hidden in the document, in particular for
newcomers. I still agree with him.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas