From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Hyphens for tags, todo keywords, and properties Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:09:19 -0500 Message-ID: <7691.1328425759@alphaville> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtwE1-0000C0-T8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:09:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtwDx-00025f-SP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:09:25 -0500 Received: from g5t0008.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.45]:8892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtwDx-00025b-JD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:09:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Samuel Wales of "Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:36:44 MST." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Samuel Wales Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Samuel Wales wrote: > For some reason I can't get used to underscores[1] and I > want to use hyphens (i.e. "-") for tags, todo keywords, and > properties. > I suspect that this is going to be difficult, if not impossible. In particular, tags and properties search uses - as a metacharacter, so having it appear as part of a tag or property would probably break things there. Nick