From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>,
emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: tag or property names with dashes
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:45:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C63A6F1-5F71-4569-A1C5-C2C137DDF65B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimWb-Z180UYvN4ztmHhGXbj=UcvB+SKL5Hgw4ko@mail.gmail.com>
On Aug 20, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Manish wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:
>>
>>> When doing an agenda tags match for tags or properties with dashes
>>> in
>>> their name,
>>> the dashes become negation operators: "my-prop>0" means "entries
>>> that
>>> have the tag
>>> 'my' and do not have a positive property 'prop'", rather than
>>> "entries
>>> that have a positive
>>> property 'my-prop'". Is there a way to escape the dashes to get the
>>> latter meaning?
>>
>> Dashes are not valid in TODO keywords and tags, but you are right,
>> properties do allow them. hmmm. I don't remember why I did allow
>> hem
>> - but surely enough I did.
>>
>
> Are "#" and "%" are disallowed in the tags? Can they be made to
> work please?
This is non-trivial and I shy away from the work for now.
Make me a patch and I will look at it.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-17 19:40 tag or property names with dashes Ilya Shlyakhter
2010-08-20 7:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-20 13:36 ` Manish
2010-08-20 13:45 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-08-20 17:32 ` Manish
2010-08-20 19:28 ` Manish
2010-08-20 19:30 ` Manish
2010-08-30 8:34 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-30 17:29 ` Manish
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