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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele@gmail.com>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Empty headline titles unsupported: Bug?
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 21:59:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7e523jj.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ka7btda.fsf@gnu.org> (Bastien's message of "Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:04:17 +0200")

Hello,

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yet, why not simply alter the headline parser a little bit to support
>> empty titles + tag? Such headlines are used in some of the tests. See
>> the attached patch.
>
> I'm in favor of this change...
>
> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
>> Because, as I wrote, this is ambiguous. You cannot distinguish the
>> following two cases:
>>
>>   * :mytag:
>>   * :myheadline:
>
> ... because I'm not convinced by the above example: I agree this is
> syntactically ambiguous, but as a human I would understand that Org
> would parse
>
>   * :myheadline:
>
> as [beginning of a headline + empty heading + tag].
>
>> So, your patch would only move the problem elsewhere. 
>
> Nicolas, do you strongly feel against this change?  Is moving the
> problem elsewhere is creating more problems I might have overlooked?
>
>> I suggest to not tag emptiness. 
>
> I'd rather allow empty headlines with tags, this seems a useful way
> of filtering/searching contents.
>
> WDYT?

I don't have anything new to bring to this discussion. I don't feel
strongly against anything.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-27 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-22 11:15 Empty headline titles unsupported: Bug? Sebastian Miele
2021-05-22 12:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-05-23  4:45   ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-23 14:06     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-05-23 14:33       ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-23 14:55         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-05-23 15:22           ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-24 11:01             ` Sebastian Miele
2021-05-24 10:37       ` Sebastian Miele
2021-09-26  9:04     ` Bastien
2021-09-26 23:47       ` Tom Gillespie
2021-09-27 19:59       ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2021-09-29 11:26     ` Bastien
2021-05-24 10:46 ` Sebastian Miele
2021-05-24 22:17   ` David Masterson
2021-05-25 10:43     ` Sebastian Miele
2021-05-25 11:43       ` Sebastian Miele
2021-05-25 16:10         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-05-25 21:04           ` David Masterson
2021-05-25 23:06             ` Tim Cross
2021-05-26 23:37               ` David Masterson
2021-05-26 14:07           ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-26 23:42             ` David Masterson
2021-05-27  3:29               ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-27 22:35                 ` David Masterson
2021-05-28  5:36                   ` Tom Gillespie
2021-05-29  6:21                     ` David Masterson
2021-05-29  6:54                       ` Tom Gillespie
2021-05-29  8:04                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-29 19:33                           ` Tom Gillespie
2021-05-30  4:06                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-29 14:09                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-05-30  2:19                     ` David Masterson

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