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From: No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
Subject: Re: [BUG] [BUG] inconsistent behavior when reading multiple tags [9.4.6 (9.4.6-g366444 @ /home/n/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)]
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:56:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7e6dluc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0j23tnu.fsf@gnu.org>


Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Instead of a defvar that we don't want the user to modify, why 
> not
> hardcoding the addition of the coma?  I'd prefer this.

`completing-read-multiple' is currently used in two spots to read 
tags:
`org-set-tags-command' and `org-capture-fill-template'.
To be clear, you would rather I hard code the same regexp and 
comment in those two locations rather than abstracting it into a 
defconst?

> Any place in the manual that refers to tag separators, 
> explicitly or
> implicitly, I've not checked if there are some.  Also in the 
> code
> itself, as a comment, to explain why both "," and ":" should be
> allowed

I don't see why we need to add anything to the manual.
We're not changing the syntax of tags.
We're utilizing the normal behavior of completing-read-multiple.
The manual states for `org-set-tags-command':

"By default Org mode uses the standard minibuffer completion 
facilities for entering tags."

The comma is standard when reading multiple items.
That seems to cover it to me.

Another solution I proposed was indicating the delimiters in the 
minibuffer prompt similar to what is currently done in 
`org-todo-list'.
e.g.

org-todo-list prompt:        "Keyword (or KWD1|KWD2|...): "
org-set-tags-command prompt: "Tags ("," or ":" to delimit): "

The only argument I heard against that was from one person who 
thought it "wasted space".
I don't consider that a strong argument considering the length of 
the prompt for `org-todo-list'.

>(avoid the keyboard-based argument, which is too subjective.)

If one can customize their keyboard layout, I don't see why we 
should be so rigid about a delimiter in a prompt.
It's a moot point, though, I've abandoned that proposal because it 
was apparently too controversial.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-27 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-26 17:04 [BUG] [BUG] inconsistent behavior when reading multiple tags [9.4.6 (9.4.6-g366444 @ /home/n/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)] No Wayman
2021-08-31 10:17 ` Timothy
2021-09-03  2:05   ` No Wayman
2021-09-03  7:22     ` Timothy
2021-09-03 17:00       ` No Wayman
2021-09-03  6:51 ` Allen Li
2021-09-03  8:08   ` Timothy
2021-09-03 19:20     ` No Wayman
2021-09-17 17:09     ` No Wayman
2021-09-03 17:13   ` No Wayman
2021-09-03 19:42     ` No Wayman
2021-09-03 23:37       ` No Wayman
2021-09-27  8:35         ` Bastien
2021-09-27 15:19           ` No Wayman
2021-09-27 15:49             ` Bastien
2021-09-27 15:56               ` No Wayman [this message]
2021-09-06  0:48     ` Allen Li
2021-09-06 23:23       ` No Wayman
2021-09-12  3:37         ` Allen Li

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