From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alan E. Davis" Subject: Re: Drawers for plain old stuff Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 23:29:18 +1000 Message-ID: <481F0BAE.6060108@gmail.com> References: <7bef1f890805030219p28401e30y93ecf10a3421c206@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt0ky-0007SX-MJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 09:29:28 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt0kw-0007Qs-Ev for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 09:29:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49915 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt0kv-0007QT-Su for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 09:29:26 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt0ku-00077z-Am for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 09:29:25 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so1251434wfc.24 for ; Mon, 05 May 2008 06:29:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > 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