Re: tagging during creation

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On  31Oct2007, at 4:17 PM, Bastien wrote:

> Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>>>   (define-key org-mode-map "\C-cc" 'org-set-tags)
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>
>> And how to do with the proper tags interface showing "tab for  
>> free" etc
>> so I can see the existing tags to choose from ? e.g as you  
>> currently get
>> when you hit C-c C-c C-c in an org file.
>
> `org-set-tags' won't use the fast selection interface unless it knows
> about a pre-defined set of available tags.  Since you cannot set this
> directly in the org-remember buffer, you need to use `org-tag-alist'
>
> See the manual (info "(org)Setting tags"):
>
>   (setq org-tag-alist '(("@WORK" . ?w) ("@HOME" . ?h) ("Laptop" . ? 
> l)))
>
> I had to make a patch to get this working with Org 5.13h, otherwise  
> Org
> would just reinitialize `org-tag-alist' each time org-mode is run,  
> i.e.
> each time a new Org buffer is open - including the remember buffer and
> regardless of the fact that `org-tag-alist' has been globally defined.
>
> Please try it and give me feedback.  Thanks,
>
> diff -u /home/guerry/elisp/testing/org/org.el /home/guerry/elisp/ 
> testing/bzg/org.el
> --- /home/guerry/elisp/testing/org/org.el	2007-10-31  
> 15:05:32.000000000 +0000
> +++ /home/guerry/elisp/testing/bzg/org.el	2007-10-31  
> 15:05:44.000000000 +0000
> @@ -4173,7 +4173,7 @@
>  			  (string-to-char (match-string 2 e)))
>  		    tgs))
>  	     (t (push (list e) tgs))))
> -	  (org-set-local 'org-tag-alist nil)
> +	  (org-set-local 'org-tag-alist org-tag-alist)
>  	  (while (setq e (pop tgs))
>  	    (or (and (stringp (car e))
>  		     (assoc (car e) org-tag-alist))

I don't think this patch is correct.  This code is only executed when  
there is a #+TAGS
line in the buffer, and then it needs to be executed, to overrule the  
global settings.
If there is no #+TAGS line, the global value will be used.

What exactly are you trying to fix with this patch?

- Carsten