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Subject: Re: Re: Stuck projects not ignoring inherited tags
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On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Paul Mead wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>>
>> However, you can do this in the initial match.  Make it
>>
>>  "+LEVEL>=2-someday/-DONE"
>>
>> note that the level is >=2, not =2 anymore.
> Excellent, that did the trick, thanks. Can I exclude more tags in this
> way, or does the syntax change?

Tags matches in general are explained here

http://orgmode.org/manual/Tag-searches.html#Tag-searches


and here


http://orgmode.org/manual/Property-searches.html#Property-searches

>
>
>>
>> The docstring of that variable does describe what its value
>> needs to look like.  Is that not extensive enough?
>
> I'm assuming you mean the text available using M-x
> describe-variable. I'm slowly getting to grips with some of this,  
> but my
> elisp knowledge is minimal.
>
> The numbered list of items describes the lists well but doesn't give  
> any
> illustration of how for instance the tags/todo matcher string works.  
> I'd
> never have guessed that I could use -someday/-DONE in that string
> without your pointing it out.

The manual has a section about stuck projects, did you read that?

http://orgmode.org/manual/Stuck-projects.html#Stuck-projects

- Carsten