On 8Nov2007, at 5:55 AM, Bastien wrote:
Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
However, I do think that Adam's initial request to make the
category available as a special property for queries in not
unreasonble. Or does anyone disagree?
I'm convinced it's not unreasonable :)
I am not sure, though, if the #+CATEGORY category should be
available with `org-entry-get', because it would then be very
hard for the property API to make a difference between a value
that is intimately associated with the current entry, and a
value that might be derived by some other mechanism. So here I
differ somewhat from Adam's feeling that category is just like
TODO or a tag. It is different.
Then a search like CATEGORY="cat" would also return entries which
CATEGORY property is not "cat"... ok, maybe this doesn't hurt that
much for search purposes. But I expect someone will come in three
month complaining that `org-entry-get' didn't return the category,
even though he set it up through #+CATEGORY.
OK, here is what we will do. We will make `org-entry-get' return
a value from #+CATEGORY if the INHERIT flag is set in the call
to `org-entry-get'. In this case the value is inherited not from
a higher level entry, but for the "file environment", and even
top-level outline entries can ihnerit it.
We actually already have this mechanism:
#+PROPERTY: Name Value
So we could then see
#+CATEGORY: work
as a short-hand for
#+PROPERTY: CATEGORY work
... which makes all of this suddenly look as if it was designed
like this from the beginning. I like it.
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this discussion.
- Carsten
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