Re: [RFC] Do not declare drawers to use them

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hello Nicolas,

I think one objection agains this patch is that, I think, MobileOrg relies on #+DRAWERS lines to be present to define drawers.  Maybe the MobileOrg maintainers for both Android and iOS can chime in here?

Otherwise I don't have a significant objection against this change.
I am wondering if it is going to introduce spurious drawers and parsing errors if someone happens to have a string :xxx: on a line by itself in the buffer.  This might be unlikely, but I am not really sure.
Comments?

- Carsten

On 20.10.2013, at 15:38, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> At the moment, in order to use a drawer, one has to declare its name
> through `org-drawers' variable or DRAWERS keyword first.
> 
> I'd like to simplify a bit the process and let the user create drawers
> on the fly instead. A valid name includes any word constituent, hyphen
> and underscore characters. Case isn't significant.
> 
> It also cleans the internals (i.e. some dynamically scoped variables are
> removed) and makes syntax more portable. But we lose completion for
> drawer names.
> 
> This patch is backward compatible, as long as previously user-defined
> drawers didn't include forbidden characters within their names.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Goaziou
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