From: Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About commit named "Allow multi-line properties to be specified in property blocks"
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:33:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGhLh6EKhiYkS8vkbKzgO3owypuvEH-XBNPaQtGah=H4+sF1oQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80vcqthqrz.fsf@somewhere.org>
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Is that patch on git yet? i.e. if can I switch back to HEAD and change my
files accordingly?
Cheers,
Rainer
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Sebastien Vauban <
wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Schulte wrote:
> > Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> > Perhaps inserting an assumed space separator would be more intuitive?
> >>> > If we were to go that way it may be possible to allow variable
> >>> > specifications such as
> >>> >
> >>> > #+PROPERTY: var foo=1 bar=2
> >>> >
> >>> > in which case properties could be easily specified on multiple lines
> >>> > using a default space separator.
> >>> >
> >>> > If this seems like a good way to go I can try to update my previous
> >>> > patch.
> >>>
> >>> I've updated the patch, the newest version is attached. It results in
> >>> the following behavior.
> >>
> >> Looks good to me - that leaves just the question, what would hppen when
> >> doing the following:
> >>
> >> #+property: var foo=1
> >> #+property: var+ 2
> >
> > The above is equivalent to,
> >
> > #+header: :var foo=1 2
> >
> > which due to interaction with some logic put in place to allow the
> > specification of un-named variables in call lines results in the
> > following.
> >
> > #+property: var foo=1
> > #+property: var+ 2
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> > foo
> > #+end_src
> >
> > #+results:
> > : 2
> >
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var bar=1 2
> > bar
> > #+end_src
> >
> > #+results:
> > : 2
> >
> > Although generally I would say that both
> >
> > #+header: :var foo=1 2
> >
> > and
> >
> > #+property: var foo=1
> > #+property: var+ 2
> >
> > are mal-formed variable assignments.
>
> I was amazed, yesterday, when you told about `foo' becoming `12' (with `1'
> on
> the assignment line and `2' on the continuation), but I'm glad you consider
> this as rather ill-formed.
>
> >> and
> >>
> >> #+property: var foo="Hello "
> >> #+property: var+ "world"
> >
> > This is exactly analogous to
> >
> > #+header: :var foo="hello" "world"
> >
> > which raises the expected error
> > ``variable ""world"" must be assigned a default value''
> >
> > the following alternative however works as expected
> >
> > #+property: var foo="Hello
> > #+property: var+ world"
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> > foo
> > #+end_src
> >
> > #+results:
> > : Hello world
>
> That said, all of these seem excellent trade-off between the different
> alternatives that have been discussed and analyzed, and they respect
> important
> aspects: simplicity (intuitive on reading) and powerfulness.
>
> Just perfect!
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
>
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
>
>
>
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2011-10-31 19:06 About commit named "Allow multi-line properties to be specified in property blocks" Nicolas Goaziou
2011-10-31 20:05 ` Eric Schulte
2011-10-31 20:49 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-10-31 21:30 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 8:24 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-01 8:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-01 14:36 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 15:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-01 16:58 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 17:48 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-01 19:02 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 19:45 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-01 20:22 ` Eric Schulte
2011-10-31 21:33 ` Christian Moe
2011-10-31 21:22 ` Christian Moe
2011-10-31 21:36 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-01 7:33 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-02 15:35 ` Bastien
2011-11-02 17:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-03 1:26 ` Bastien
2011-11-03 8:08 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-03 15:10 ` Nick Dokos
2011-11-03 18:32 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-03 20:01 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-11-03 20:18 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-03 20:23 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-04 8:02 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-04 17:48 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-11-04 19:25 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-07 22:09 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-08 8:42 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-08 9:31 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-08 9:41 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-08 9:58 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-08 10:06 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-08 14:42 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-11-08 15:06 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-08 16:03 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-08 22:53 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-09 8:25 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-09 16:12 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-09 17:18 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-09 22:31 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-15 12:33 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2011-11-15 16:00 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-15 16:37 ` Torsten Wagner
2011-11-15 16:56 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-15 17:13 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-11-15 18:22 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-15 17:24 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-08 9:41 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-11-08 9:44 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-11-08 16:01 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-02 21:05 ` Samuel Wales
2011-11-02 21:21 ` Samuel Wales
2011-11-03 1:42 ` Bastien
2011-11-03 8:19 ` Christian Moe
2011-11-03 18:34 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-03 18:59 ` Eric Schulte
2011-11-09 17:40 ` Samuel Wales
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