Re: [O] Completely hide the :PROPERTIES: drawer in org-mode.

[Michaël Cadilhac]

Hi there;

Agreed, hiding properties entirely seems overkill and quite limited in
use cases.  However, I think this stems from a more general need to
hide properties that are irrelevant to the user—for instance, UIDs
created by ox-icalendar, or other internal properties.  As a user, I
see no need whatsoever to see—let alone edit—such a property, and feel
that it clutters the display.  Assuming that properties are edited
using the suitable commands, no clash would be created by having a set
P of properties such that drawers with only P-properties would be
hidden.  What do you think?

Cheers;
M.

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 08:38, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Keith David Bershatsky <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > A few years ago, I wrote up an answer to my own question on
> > Stackoverflow to completely hide the :PROPERTIES: drawer, including
> > the line that says :PROPERTIES:. Since then, it has received nearly
> > 5,000 views, 11 stars, 17 upvotes on the initial question, and 15
> > upvotes on the answer.
> >
> > Today, a forum participant posted a comment underneath my answer asking why 
> > not send this upstream.  So, here is the link to the answer:
> >
> > https://stackoverflow.com/a/17492723/2112489
>
> Thank you for the suggestion.
>
> However, I think hiding completely stuff from the user is not great. How
> would you edit it, or even know there are properties there?
>
> You can write ":properties:" instead of ":PROPERTIES:", dim them with an
> appropriate face…
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>