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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Ilya Shlyakhter <ilya_shl@alum.mit.edu>, emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

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