From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manish Subject: Re: tag or property names with dashes Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:06:07 +0530 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51881 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OmRlp-00022T-UR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:36:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmRll-0002sB-6k for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:36:33 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:64094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmRlk-0002s0-V6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:36:29 -0400 Received: by bwz6 with SMTP id 6so2786206bwz.0 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:36:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: Ilya Shlyakhter , emacs-orgmode 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? Regards -- Manish