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From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Allowing :PROPERTIES: drawer to appear at the end of entries
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:44:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca98b82a-766f-40cc-b288-ed67dc983f93@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ttx36oe1.fsf@newartisans.com>

Having said this, I recognize that since I’m likely the only person to use the feature, I’m asking you to take on testing and maintenance of a change that goes against established design. So on second thought, never mind. I can maintain the changes in a local fork, since I appreciate that a small change like this can lead to big headaches if not enough other people are actively using it.

John

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023, at 1:25 AM, John Wiegley wrote:
>>>>>> "IR" == Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
> IR> Sorry, but I am against this feature.
> IR> The original motivation why we restricted the property drawers to be
> IR> only right at the beginning of a heading in Org 8.3 was performance.
> IR> See https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87oatek909.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr/
>
> I should be able to choose to trade performance for layout. It's my data.
> Since this does not impair the performance of those who do not opt in for
> this feature, it seems an unnecessary restriction to prevent it.
>
> --
> John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
> http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-26  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-25 22:53 Allowing :PROPERTIES: drawer to appear at the end of entries John Wiegley
2023-04-26  6:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-04-26  8:25   ` John Wiegley
2023-04-26  8:44     ` John Wiegley [this message]
2023-04-26  8:56     ` Ihor Radchenko

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