Re: Automatic global tag list?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Nov 23, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Uriel Avalos wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:52:34 +0100
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Uriel Avalos wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to auto-magically construct the global tag list (org-
>>> tag-alist)?
>>> That is, tags would get added to the global list as you add them.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, is there a way to construct the global list of all  
>>> tags
>>> in use (in the agenda files or given set of files)?
>>
>> There is the function `org-global-tags-completion-table' which will
>> construct this list for the agenda files or for any other list of
>> files you are giving it.  For each of these files it will at the tags
>> defined in #+TAGS: lines as well as any other tags being used in that
>> file.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply. However, I'm afraid that I'm not (yet) a lisp
> programmer. What would the definition of such a function look like?
> This function seems to be undocumented.

The function is there, and it is documented.  But I think they key  
question is:  what you you want to do with the list of tags.  If you  
tell us, maybe you can get an answer!

- Carsten