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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: Hide / expand tags
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:30:59 -0400
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Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>
>> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is it possible to hide tags?
>>>
>>> Rationale: Sometimes an item has so many tags, that it becomes kind of
>>> annoying visually.
>>>
>>> It'd be nice to have a command to hide/expand tags.  What do you think?
>>>
>>
>> Could you please explain in which context you would like to hide tags?
>>
>> If you'd like to hide them in the agenda, there are variables to do so:
>>
>>  - org-agenda-remove-tags
>>  - org-agenda-hide-tags-regexp
>>
>> If you'd like to hide them in your normal org-mode files, one option is
>> to customize the org-tag face (i.e., to set the foreground to the same
>> color as the background).
>
> That might be a silly/dangerous thing to do since you might corrupt your
> tags without realising. 

Very good point. Scratch that idea. Since I myself have no desire or
need to hide tags, I threw out the idea without thinking it through.
Thanks for pointing out the danger.

- Matt