Re: [O] babel properties and inheritance

[Berry, Charles]

> On Jul 12, 2018, at 4:13 AM, Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Org List,
> 
> I'm confused about the inheritance behavior of babel properties.
> 
>> From the MWE below, I'd expect :tangle to take effect at the heading level 
>> (it does), but :tangle-mode and :comments to apply to the whole file. They 
>> do not have any effect. It doesn't seem to matter if I turn on or off 
>> org-use-property-inheritance. In either case, :comments are not tangled, and 
>> the file mode is not 755.
> 
>  -k.
> 
> MWE ======================================================
> 
> #+PROPERTY: header-args: :tangle debug.sh :tangle-mode (identity #o755) 
> :comments org
........................^...

Delete the colon. Then C-c C-c (which I often forget!)

then use `:header-args+:' for any heading to avoid clobbering the args you do 
not wish to change.

Chuck