From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: Hyphens for tags, todo keywords, and properties Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:30:26 -0500 Message-ID: <8739apcpz1.fsf@norang.ca> References: <7691.1328425759@alphaville> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru36w-00038L-3P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:30:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru36r-0006gc-M3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:30:33 -0500 Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.71]:58289) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru36r-0006gY-Ip for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:30:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <7691.1328425759@alphaville> (Nick Dokos's message of "Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:09:19 -0500") 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: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Nick Dokos writes: > 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. 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