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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

  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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