From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Cameron Horsburgh <cammo@netcall.com.au>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug with tag inheritance
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:45:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc0euso2.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090424104335.GA17832@earth> (Cameron Horsburgh's message of "Fri\, 24 Apr 2009 20\:43\:35 +1000")
Cameron Horsburgh <cammo@netcall.com.au> writes:
> Today I stumbled across an instance where tag inheritance doesn't seem
> to work as I expected it to.
>
> I'm using GNU Emacs 23.0.92.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.7)
> of 2009-04-12 on elegiac, modified by Debian, and Org-mode version
> 6.26trans.
>
> Let's say I have an org file that records all the information for a
> particular part of my life. Different parts of the file record
> meetings, track projects and record notes and other
> information. Here's what it might look like:
>
>
>
> * Meetings
> ** Lunch with John :Restaurant:
> <2009-04-27 Mon 12:30>
> ** Meeting with Fred :Office:
> <2009-04-27 Mon 13:00>
> * Projects
> ** Find Higgs Boson :Laboratory:
> DEADLINE: <2009-04-27 Mon>
> ** Achieve World domination :Office:Laboratory:
> SCHEDULED: <2009-04-28 Tue>
> ** Cook dinner :Kitchen:
> * Notes :Info:
> ** Mary's phone numbers
> - 1234-5678
> - 0412-345-678
> ** Jenny's web page
> - [[http://www.somewebpage.com][Jenny's web page]]
>
> I have customised org-stuck-projects[fn:1] to ignore entries tagged
> with the tag `Info'. org-use-tag-inheritance is set to `t'.
>
> If I hit C-a # to list stuck projects I would only expect to see the
> entry about cooking dinner listed. The `Notes' headline should be
> ignored, as should the notes about Mary's phone number and Jenny's web
> page, because they inherit the `Info' tag.
>
> In practice, the `Notes' headline is ignored as expected. However, the
> children are listed as stuck projects.
>
> After all this I have realised it's probably more appropriate to use
> properties rather than tags to do this sort of thing. Still, the
> behaviour puzzles me a bit, so I thought it was worth asking about.
>
> Is this behaviour incorrect? Or am I expecting the wrong thing?
>
> * Footnotes
>
> [fn:1] I had some trouble customising this variable in the usual way,
> because the explanation at the end of the customize buffer somehow got
> included in the sexp recorded in my .emacs. I deleted that line, reset
> the customize buffer and started again, but with exactly the same
> result.
Hi Cameron,
I think we need more information to help. Could you show us what your
value of org-stuck-projects is?
-Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-24 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 10:43 Possible bug with tag inheritance Cameron Horsburgh
2009-04-24 12:45 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2009-04-24 13:08 ` Cameron Horsburgh
2009-04-24 13:24 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-04-24 18:02 ` Cameron Horsburgh
2009-04-24 18:12 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-04-25 18:54 ` Cameron Horsburgh
2009-04-24 13:54 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-04-25 19:14 ` Cameron Horsburgh
2009-04-25 20:55 ` Bernt Hansen
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