Re: Dynamic tag completion with all tags from all agenda files

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic tag completion with all tags from all agenda files
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:55:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8BCB46F4-83FB-4131-87EA-9EB48874D41A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d43o7r22.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de>

Hi Tassilo,

%^G in a remember template gives you completion on all tags, globally.
The fast tag interface does not, indeed.

On the list, but not now...

- Carsten

On Nov 11, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> is there a way to get the tag completion suggest all tags from all my
> agenda files?
>
> The rationale is that I use `org-remember' very extensively, and I  
> often
> want to tag the new entry.  But there's no dynamic completion, because
> that uses only the current file's tags and the remember buffer has  
> none.
>
> I could setup all tags in `org-tag-alist', but tags are not really
> static.  I could add a new one with TAB in the tag interface, but  
> then I
> would have to add it to `org-tag-alist' manually.  Not very nifty...
>
> What would be cool, was that org collected all tags from all agenda
> files as soon as the agenda is built the first time.  Then it uses  
> those
> cached tags for completion (maybe with some automatic fast selection  
> key
> calculation *dreaming*).  When a user adds a new tag with TAB in the  
> tag
> interface, it is added to that list.
>
> I don't know exactly how the behavior should be with `org-tag-alist'  
> set
> to something.  Maybe a good approach for the whole wish would be  
> adding
> a special entry to org-tag-alist:
>
>  ;; Use all tags from all agenda files, and add the tags foo and bar,
>  ;; even if they are not used anywhere.
>  (setq org-tag-alist '(:all foo bar))
>
> Now only the behavior of the TAGS keyword in files has to be defined
> somehow.  Well, I don't have an opinion.  There are two options: 1)
> extend the dynamic list of all tags with the ones defined in TAGS
> (consistent with the :all keyword above), or 2) the dynamic list is
> disabled and only those tags are shown (consistent with the current
> behavior).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
>
>
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- Carsten