excellent, that is exactly where I would have expected it, in the documentation for org-entry-put.
it would also make sense to say in org-entry-get that you get a string. if you store a number in a property, it is not obvious you can't just get it and do math on it. Thanks! John ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Associate Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Bastien <b...@gnu.org> wrote: > Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > > > Bastien writes: > >>> 3. It also wasn't obvious that you have to give org-entry-put a > >>> string. If you try to set it to an integer, you get strange control > >>> characters like ^A or ^C. > >> > >> Can you tell which place in the documentation you expect to find this > >> information? In functions' docstrings or in the manual? > > > > Besides documenting the requirement, I guess it makes sense to check for > > stringiness before using the argument. > > Indeed, done here: > http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=9758f2 > > -- > Bastien > >
