Re: Properly handle defaults in org-set-property

[Ihor Radchenko]

Janek F <xerusx@pm.me> writes:

> As discussed in 
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/71774/pass-default-value-to-org-set-property/71777,
>  providing a default to org-set-property does not always work.
>
> It calls `org-read-property-value`, which only uses the supplied default 
> value if it can compute a list of allowed values for the property. But then, 
> the default value has to be part of that `_ALL` list.
>
> Can this be changed so it always uses the given default?

Why don't you just use

(map! :desc "Set ID property" "lI"
      '(lambda ()
         (interactive)
         (org-set-property "ID" (org-read-property-value "ID" nil 
"default-value"))))

?

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