Re: Drawers for plain old stuff

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

> the drawer cannot contain a headline, i.e. a line starting with one or 
> several stars followed by a space character. Most likely, this is what 
> was causing you problems? 
Exactly.

A case I can think of---perhaps not convincing?---for regular expression of drawer names is a file with many pasted in, lengthy notes or data sets.  So as to be able to distinguish them without opening them, one might wish to title them:

    :DATA-PROFILE1:

    :DATA-PROFILE2X:

    :DATA-TRANSECT_A:

    :DATA-SALINITY-2008-04-29:

An extremely simple regular expression would be "DATA.*" .  One can argue, convincingly, that each data set would best be stored in a file, and could be linked to.  

I did have two sets of calendars from 1984 and 1985 that were not huge, but were in the way.   I can as easily entitle each with a headline, then brace them in :CACHE: drawers.  

You have convinced me, but I hope I would not bore you by asking you for comments about this.

Thank you very much for your helpful answer, verifying what I suspected from experiments.  

Alan