From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hyphens for tags, todo keywords, and properties
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:30:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739apcpz1.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7691.1328425759@alphaville> (Nick Dokos's message of "Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:09:19 -0500")
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> 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.
How is tag filtering where you remove a tag with '-TAG' going to
distinguish between a tag with a - and tag you want to remove?
(tags-todo "-WAITING-CANCELLED/!NEXT"
is that one tag to remove - WAITING-CANCELLED or is it two (-WAITING and -CANCELLED)?
-Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-05 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-05 2:36 Hyphens for tags, todo keywords, and properties Samuel Wales
2012-02-05 7:09 ` Nick Dokos
2012-02-05 14:30 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2012-02-05 16:23 ` Samuel Wales
2012-02-05 20:36 ` Nick Dokos
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