On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 2:14 AM Allen Li <darkfel...@felesatra.moe> wrote: > > Or did you mean ITEM omits the stars? That doesn't appear to be the > case as of 04641c4bbefc5f90e05fe4e846f4aeab15f1c262 on master > yesterday.
So org-entry-properties does indeed return ITEM without the leading stars, but the column view adds them back in. This includes agenda views, where the stars make less sens out of the outline context. Apologies, the issue isn't in the ITEM special property, but how column view processes it.