Re: [O] Bug: malformed property drawers [8.3.6 (8.3.6-3-gf46b92-elpa @ c:/Users/atamulis/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20160919/)]

[Colin Baxter]

On Wed, Sep 28 2016, Tamulis, Andrius wrote:

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> But the better idea is to forget "fixing" these drawers. Is it truly that 
> important to have the
> SCHEDULED and DEADLINE in the line below the heading, and the PROPERTIES 
> drawer directly
> beneath? I see no programming advantage, since you need to search for these 
> strings anyway. And I
> don't like the way it looks: I use org-mode to keep todo lists and notes, I 
> need to read the notes and
> instructions I wrote to myself. These notes and instructions often are longer 
> than the headline, so I
> naturally keep reading from the headline to the line below - and then I have 
> to skip lines with code in
> them. And I'm not the only one who does not like this setup: there's code out 
> there to completly hide
> the PROPERTIES drawer so that it does not interrupt your reading.
> (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17478260/completely-hide-the-properties-drawer-in-org-mode).
>  
>
> So: put SCHEDULED, DEADLINE, and drawers anywhere in the item! And stop 
> fixing the drawers!
>

Having experienced the same problem, I totally agree.

Colin.