Org Properties and tab completion issues

Org Properties and tab completion issues

[dlc]

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Using the example in the Org Manual doesn't seem to work although I am new to emacs and org mode so maybe i'm not grasping the concept.
I set org-use-inheritance to true, I saved the file and loaded it fresh and tried C-c C-c on the #+PROPERTY line to refresh local setup.

Problems:
1. If the property is not yet used on an entry, tab completion only shows "property_ALL" instead of "property", and of course there is no completion on possible values. 
2. inherited properties - Where is the GENRES property and the inheritance?
3. Is there a way to display only some of the STANDARD properties along with my custom properties in the completion buffer?

See sample org file below:

Use case - i am trying to manage my contacts and want to predefine about 30 properties and their allowed values before using them.  I want to use COLUMN view to look through 1,000's of contacts and possibly sort them by different criteria depending on task at hand.  I will use agenda to manage TODOs and SCHEDULED.  By setting a UUID for each top -level entry (a person) then possibly write some functions (providing a database -like functionality).  I need this to work across Windows, Mac Leopard & Lion, Centos, and OpenSuse, along with syncing some contact info to iPhone & iPad, all whether I'm online or offline (in the field).  I will use svn or git to keep things current on the desktop/laptop platforms.   


#+PROPERTY: NDisks_ALL 1 2 3 4

* CD collection
  :PROPERTIES:
  :Publisher_ALL: "Deutsche Grammophon" Philips EMI
  :END:
** Classic
   :PROPERTIES:
   :GENRES:   Classic
   :END:
*** Goldberg Variations
    :PROPERTIES:
    :Title:    Goldberg Variations
    :Artist:   Glen Gould
    :Composer: J.S. Bach
    :Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
    :NDisks:    1
    :GENRES+: Baroque
    :END:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results output
(print (version))
(print org-use-property-inheritance)
(print (org-entry-properties nil ))
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: 
: "GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0, NS apple-appkit-1138.32)
:  of 2012-06-15 on gamma.local"
: 
: t
: 
: (("FILE" . "/Users/davidcoate/gtd/temp.org") ("BLOCKED" . "") ("Title" . "Goldberg Variations") ("Artist" . "Glen Gould") ("Composer" . "J.S. Bach") ("Publisher" . "Deutsche Grammophon") ("NDisks" . "1") ("CATEGORY" . "temp"))






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Re: Org Properties and tab completion issues

[Bastien]

Hi Dave,

dlc <dlc@coateconnection.com> writes:

> Using the example in the Org Manual doesn't seem to work although I
> am new to emacs and org mode so maybe i'm not grasping the concept.
> I set org-use-inheritance to true

(I assume this is `org-use-property-inheritance'.)

> Problems:
> 1. If the property is not yet used on an entry, tab completion only
> shows "property_ALL" instead of "property", and of course there is no
> completion on possible values. 

There was a small bug here -- please pull from git and test.
Thanks for reporting this.

> 2. inherited properties - Where is the GENRES property and the
> inheritance?

I don't understand.

> 3. Is there a way to display only some of the STANDARD properties
> along with my custom properties in the completion buffer?

Nope.  I think completion is handy enough like this, but perhaps I
misunderstand the request.

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Org Properties and tab completion issues

[dlc]

>
>
>> Problems:
>> 1. If the property is not yet used on an entry, tab completion only
>> shows "property_ALL" instead of "property", and of course there is no
>> completion on possible values.
>
> There was a small bug here -- please pull from git and test.
> Thanks for reporting this.
>
>> 2. inherited properties - Where is the GENRES property and the
>> inheritance?
>
> I don't understand.

The manual gives an example of an inherited property (GENRES in the  
discography example) but (org-entry-properties) does not return it.   
Is there a different function for this? From the function description:

"(org-entry-properties &optional POM WHICH SPECIFIC)

Get all properties of the entry at point-or-marker POM.
This includes the TODO keyword, the tags, time strings for deadline,
scheduled, and clocking, and any additional properties defined in the
entry.  The return value is an alist, keys may occur multiple times
if the property key was used several times.
POM may also be nil, in which case the current entry is used.
If WHICH is nil or `all', get all properties.  If WHICH is
`special' or `standard', only get that subclass.  If WHICH
is a string only get exactly this property.  SPECIFIC can be a string,  
the
specific property we are interested in.  Specifying it can speed
things up because then unnecessary parsing is avoided. "

By the way, how is WHICH different from SPECIFIC?

>
>> 3. Is there a way to display only some of the STANDARD properties
>> along with my custom properties in the completion buffer?
>
> Nope.  I think completion is handy enough like this, but perhaps I
> misunderstand the request.
>

There are about 28 STANDARD properties, if I add 30 custom properties,  
the completion list becomes overwhelming.  Is there a way to to  
hardcode the completion list to just the properties I want it to offer?

> HTH,
>
> -- 
> Bastien
>

Thanks Bastien!!