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Subject: Re: How to set org-tag-alist
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Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> writes:

> This describes a org-tag-alist for setting up globally a list of tags, but I'm not sure how to alter
> org-tag-alist. I'm used to doing an M-x customize-variable, but there is no org-tag-alist.

There is a defcustom for it in org.el, so once that is loaded, you should be able
to customize it. 

>  Later on the page it has this form:
>
> (setq org-tag-alist '(("@work" . ?w) ("@home" . ?h) ("laptop" . ?l)))
>
> which seems to be something to put in my .emacs, i.e., org-tag-alist is not an existing variable?
>

You probably have not loaded org yet.

-- 
Nick