Re: Completely hide properties drawer in 9.6

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Sterling Hooten <hooten@gmail.com> writes:

>     (let* ((block (org-get-property-block))
> 	   ;; Extremely hacky way to get the whole property drawer
> 	   (beg (- (car block) 14))
> 	   (end (+ (cdr block) 5)))
>       (with-silent-modifications
> 	(org-fold-region beg end t 'org-hide-property-drawer))))
> #+end_src
>
> Is there a better way to get the beginning and end 
> of the property drawer more robustly?

org-element-at-point

> This is a step in the right direction, but it seems too sensitive to accidental editing.

See :fragile in org-fold-core--specs.

> This should be impervious to most types of user interaction,
> and prevent accidentally deleting or abutting anything
> up against either the start or end of the properties box.

which is part of the reason why the proposal was rejected.
Though Org tries hard in org-catch-invisible-edits.

> I tried setting `org-fold-catch-invisible-edits' to different values, but even
> with set to nil I can backward delete and erase some invisible
> text. Is this dependent on their being an ellipsis? Or is there
> another way to make this impervious to most edits?

It's just because only a fixed set of folds is caught in the invisible
edits check now.

> When adding a property with `org-property-put’ this would need
> to be called again, is there a way to do that robustly?

I should not need to be called again once you set
:front-sticky/:rear-sticky folding spec property.

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