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From: Benjamin Andresen <bandresen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How do people do it: lots of tags?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:14:42 +0200
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Hey Alan,

"Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:

> Working in an 80-90 character line format, I am afraid to use more than a
> few tags, and I try to make them short.  After well over a year, I am still
> a bumbling novice with org-mode, but I'm beginning to have some insight,
> perhaps, into how some things can work.  I like the idea of tags alot, and
> that they can be used to group entries in wide ranging bunches of files.
>
> How do people get around the line length limitation?  I would appreciate
> learning how others deal with lots of  tags?  I think it's more interesting
> to not limit to a closed system of tags.

This is how I get around the line-length:
  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.php#sec-13

If that is too involved you can also change the value of
`org-tags-column' and `org-agenda-tags-column' to a bigger value than it
is currently set to for a quick fix.


> Alan

HTH,
benny