On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> wrote:
> Marcel van der Boom <mar...@hsdev.com> writes: > > > I've been wondering about this for a bit. It would make things a bit > > more consistent for me if all properties are in the 'properties'-drawer. > > Or am I missing something here? > > The main reason I can think of is that this is historical. CLOSED: was > invented long before anyone thought about the need for drawers. > > Drawers are an added feature that is not needed to be able to make > org-mode useful. I don't think there should be a requirement for having > a drawer when you mark a task done just to record the CLOSED date. > Having an option to enable this behaviour would be fine with me. > I stumbled recently over this old message which may have relevancy for this http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/3783 Juri > > The idea of including timestamps in property drawers is a fairly recent > development in org-mode. >
