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From: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
To: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: property searches for #+CATEGORY
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:35:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107163516.GQ13544@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d6808890711070652l68d51190y2b4b735543cded7c@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 03:52:55PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
> My point with the taxonomy is that Categories especially 'personal'
> and 'work' can be thought of as Meta Contexts (i wanted to say
> Meta-TAGS, but that might get confusing). So contexts that are
> arbitrary but are used to group many actual physical contexts (TAGS)
> of todo nodes.

I see.

> The '#' was the thought that if you treat Categories as a type of tag,
> then you could add them to the tag search mechanism. To avoid
> collision, such as work - the physical context and work, the category,
> prefix them with a meta-character such as # which cannot normally be
> in a tag name.
> 
> So a categorised tag-todo search might be:
> "#work+work+email/TODO"

Sure, that would be good enough for me if it were implemented - I'm
not fussy whether what I need was provided via new syntax such as the
above, or existing syntax such as

  CATEGORY="work"+email/TODO 

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-07 11:17 property searches for #+CATEGORY Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 12:49 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 12:15   ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 13:23 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 13:34   ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 13:59     ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 14:28       ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 14:52         ` Tim O'Callaghan
2007-11-07 16:35           ` Adam Spiers [this message]
2007-11-07 16:15       ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-07 18:07         ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-08  4:55         ` Bastien
2007-11-08  8:54           ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-07 14:49     ` Bastien
2007-11-07 14:32       ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 14:15 ` Bastien
2007-11-07 13:52   ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-07 17:16     ` Bastien
2007-11-07 17:23       ` Adam Spiers
2007-11-08  4:42         ` Bastien
2007-11-07 16:20   ` Carsten Dominik
2007-11-08  0:04     ` Adam Spiers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-07 23:35 Mario E. Munich
2008-12-08 16:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-09  0:33   ` Mario E. Munich
2008-12-09  1:41     ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-09  6:51       ` Mario E. Munich
2008-12-07 23:39 Mario E. Munich

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