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From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>,
	emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: tag or property names with dashes
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:02:49 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=F853XhuP9zH6u0hHJpP7nbmo2GUUh+sJUSaNE@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C63A6F1-5F71-4569-A1C5-C2C137DDF65B@gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> On Aug 20, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Manish wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Ilya Shlyakhter wrote:
>>>
>>>> When doing an agenda tags match for tags or properties with dashes in
>>>> their name,
>>>> the dashes become negation operators: "my-prop>0" means "entries that
>>>> have the tag
>>>> 'my' and do not have a positive property 'prop'", rather than "entries
>>>> that have a positive
>>>> property 'my-prop'".  Is there a way to escape the dashes to get the
>>>> latter meaning?
>>>
>>> Dashes are not valid in TODO keywords and tags, but you are right,
>>> properties do allow them.  hmmm.  I don't remember why I did allow hem
>>> - but surely enough I did.
>>>
>>
>> Are "#" and "%" are disallowed in the tags?  Can they be made to work please?
>
> This is non-trivial and I shy away from the work for now.
> Make me a patch and I will look at it.

Attempting something that /you/ call non-trivial is nigh impossible for
me. :(

But even if I were to dare.. any hints where I could start?

Thanks
-- Manish

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17 19:40 tag or property names with dashes Ilya Shlyakhter
2010-08-20  7:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-20 13:36   ` Manish
2010-08-20 13:45     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-20 17:32       ` Manish [this message]
2010-08-20 19:28         ` Manish
2010-08-20 19:30           ` Manish
2010-08-30  8:34             ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-30 17:29               ` Manish

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