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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: yanmcbe <yanmcbe@gmail.com>
Cc: org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: inheritance of mutually exclusive tags
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:26:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1e9domz.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALeTTmG3X-FgHmyHAmjW02PkjnG4DRY9hooB7_wnWUD_c4HBUg@mail.gmail.com> (yanmcbe@gmail.com's message of "Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:29:21 +0100")

Hello,

yanmcbe <yanmcbe@gmail.com> writes:

> Org-mode allows marking a set of tags as mutually exclusive. It also allows
> the inheritance of tags.
>
> (from now on I am talking only about these mutually exclusive tags)
>
> When a tag is set in a parent, but also in a child, what I expect to happen
> is that the child is not included in searches/selections with the parent
> tag.
>
> In the example [0], a search for black (e.g. C-/ m black <ret>) should not
> match poodle, because it is white.
>
> Now I realize that the mutually exclusive tag concept is probably only a
> convenience for adding tags with C-c. And it doesn't seem to have any other
> implications, but it would be nice to have. Do you think this is a
> possibility or that I could get this behaviour some other way?

I'm late to the party, but it sounds like a good idea. It would need to
be properly documented however, as it could be surprising.

Would you want to provide a patch for that?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-23 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-28 13:29 inheritance of mutually exclusive tags yanmcbe
2017-02-23 13:26 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2022-10-16 12:25 ` [O] " Ihor Radchenko

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