Hide / expand tags

Hide / expand tags

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa]

Hey list!

Is it possible to hide tags?

Rationale: Sometimes an item has so many tags, that it becomes kind of
annoying visually.

It'd be nice to have a command to hide/expand tags.  What do you think?

Cheers,

Marcelo.

Re: Hide / expand tags

[Michael Brand]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 20:57, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
<celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to hide tags?

No.

> Rationale: Sometimes an item has so many tags, that it becomes kind of
> annoying visually.
> It'd be nice to have a command to hide/expand tags.  What do you think?

I think it'd be nice for this to have the _alternative_ to put the
tags into the properties drawer and occasionally view and edit them
with a column view:

#+SPECIAL_PROPERTIES: TAGS=drawer:PROPERTIES   <= only a suggestion
* TODO xy
  :PROPERTIES:
  :TAGS:     :work:home:
  :END:

Maybe this could also be useful for some other special properties, see
the thread
"Why are special properties like CLOSED etc. not in the properties drawer?"
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/40571/focus=40579

Btw.: I did also not find a way to change the alignment of tags in the
agenda view like it is possible for Org files with org-tags-column ->
another reason I kind of avoid tags and try to use CATEGORY instead,
but there it is not easy to have multiple items like e. g. `work' and
`home'. What a pity that this way I miss tag features like e. g. the
well supported tag search or the single key tag setting described at
the end of
http://orgmode.org/manual/Setting-tags.html#Setting-tags

Michael

Re: Hide / expand tags

[Richard Riley]

Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 20:57, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
> <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible to hide tags?
>
> No.
>
>> Rationale: Sometimes an item has so many tags, that it becomes kind of
>> annoying visually.
>> It'd be nice to have a command to hide/expand tags.  What do you think?
>
> I think it'd be nice for this to have the _alternative_ to put the
> tags into the properties drawer and occasionally view and edit them
> with a column view:
>
> #+SPECIAL_PROPERTIES: TAGS=drawer:PROPERTIES   <= only a suggestion
> * TODO xy
>   :PROPERTIES:
>   :TAGS:     :work:home:
>   :END:

+1 on that  - I frequently mess up my org items when modifying the
subject because of the long line including tags. 

Re: Hide / expand tags

[Matt Lundin]

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possible to hide tags?
>
> Rationale: Sometimes an item has so many tags, that it becomes kind of
> annoying visually.
>
> It'd be nice to have a command to hide/expand tags.  What do you think?
>

Could you please explain in which context you would like to hide tags?

If you'd like to hide them in the agenda, there are variables to do so:

 - org-agenda-remove-tags
 - org-agenda-hide-tags-regexp

If you'd like to hide them in your normal org-mode files, one option is
to customize the org-tag face (i.e., to set the foreground to the same
color as the background).

Best,
Matt

Re: Hide / expand tags

[Richard Riley]

Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is it possible to hide tags?
>>
>> Rationale: Sometimes an item has so many tags, that it becomes kind of
>> annoying visually.
>>
>> It'd be nice to have a command to hide/expand tags.  What do you think?
>>
>
> Could you please explain in which context you would like to hide tags?
>
> If you'd like to hide them in the agenda, there are variables to do so:
>
>  - org-agenda-remove-tags
>  - org-agenda-hide-tags-regexp
>
> If you'd like to hide them in your normal org-mode files, one option is
> to customize the org-tag face (i.e., to set the foreground to the same
> color as the background).

That might be a silly/dangerous thing to do since you might corrupt your
tags without realising. I like the idea of TAGS being in the properties
I must say.

Re: Hide / expand tags

[Matt Lundin]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>
>> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Is it possible to hide tags?
>>>
>>> Rationale: Sometimes an item has so many tags, that it becomes kind of
>>> annoying visually.
>>>
>>> It'd be nice to have a command to hide/expand tags.  What do you think?
>>>
>>
>> Could you please explain in which context you would like to hide tags?
>>
>> If you'd like to hide them in the agenda, there are variables to do so:
>>
>>  - org-agenda-remove-tags
>>  - org-agenda-hide-tags-regexp
>>
>> If you'd like to hide them in your normal org-mode files, one option is
>> to customize the org-tag face (i.e., to set the foreground to the same
>> color as the background).
>
> That might be a silly/dangerous thing to do since you might corrupt your
> tags without realising. 

Very good point. Scratch that idea. Since I myself have no desire or
need to hide tags, I threw out the idea without thinking it through.
Thanks for pointing out the danger.

- Matt

Re: Hide / expand tags

[Maxim Stolyarchuk]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 20:57, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
>> <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to hide tags?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> Rationale: Sometimes an item has so many tags, that it becomes kind of
>>> annoying visually.
>>> It'd be nice to have a command to hide/expand tags.  What do you think?
>>
>> I think it'd be nice for this to have the _alternative_ to put the
>> tags into the properties drawer and occasionally view and edit them
>> with a column view:
>>
>> #+SPECIAL_PROPERTIES: TAGS=drawer:PROPERTIES   <= only a suggestion
>> * TODO xy
>>   :PROPERTIES:
>>   :TAGS:     :work:home:
>>   :END:
>
> +1 on that  - I frequently mess up my org items when modifying the
> subject because of the long line including tags. 

Hello,

After seven years, I wonder what has come of it? Is it possible to move
tags away from a headline into the properties drawer without losing
support for them?

Maxim

Re: Hide / expand tags

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Maxim Stolyarchuk <maxim.stolyarchuk@gmail.com> writes:

> After seven years, I wonder what has come of it? Is it possible to move
> tags away from a headline into the properties drawer without losing
> support for them?

No, it isn't.

I don't think that's a good idea, either.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou