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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Subject: Re: How to call org-set-property from a function
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:53:12 +0100
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Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
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>> For more fine grained control you probably need to write something akin to
>> org-set-property and check the actual values (e.g. to signal quit if an
>> empty quote is returned).
>
> Actually, shouldn't org-set-property check for an empty quote for the
> property name since it will result :: ie a malformed drawer 

It's a bug.

     http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html#Node_Properties

Please start a new thread, and feel free to suggest a patch.

Thanks,
Rasmus

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