From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Brett Witty <brettwitty@brettwitty.net>
Cc: Org mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Normalizing tags
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:06:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lhq141yt.fsf@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANK_Tn8u70RyuavaPvoreqZ94T6a28LESN4QewHn3PJirwJxww@mail.gmail.com>
Brett Witty writes:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone made a module to normalize tags across your entire setup?
Not that I know of.
> That is if you have "Blog" and "blog" as tags, then you fix it as one
> or the other, or "hint" and "tip" tags being collapsed.
>
> If not, would people be interested in that?
There may not be a lot of demand for it since tags are bounded by colons
and can be easily search-replaced. Of course, a function that flags up
all the possible duplicates and queries you for the preferred form could
be a time-saver.
If you're planning to write one:
In addition to capitalization ("Blog"/"blog"), it would be useful to
look for English singular/plural ("blog"/"blogs") -- but let the user
beware ("aid" and "aids" may not be the same tag).
People tagging their documents in other languages might find some kind
of pattern-matching option helpful.
What I would find *really* nice, now that Org supports tag groups, is a
function to normalize old documents where entries are tagged with both a
group tag and its members. That is, given
#+TAGS: { music : classical rock folk }
and a heading like
* Woody Guthrie :music:American:folk:
the function would remove the redundant group tag to yield
* Woody Guthrie :American:folk:
Yours,
Christian
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