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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: tag or property names with dashes
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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