Hi,

I support George view. A working ARCHIVE tag on file level would be
consistent and very useful.

To be archived is a property of the content of a file, not of it's file
name. Having to store the file name on a variable is a complicated and poor
workaround. The file name may change. Still the content should stay
archived.

Regards,
Michael

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> schrieb am So., 17. Mai 2020, 07:34:

> George Sokolsky writes:
>
> > I have .org files with  "#+FILETAGS: ARCHIVE" headers.
> >
> > I want items from these .org files to be hidden by default from results
> > of "org-agenda" -> "s Search for keywords" by default.
> >
> > This is not the case, unfortunately.
> [...]
>
> I'd guess that it's uncommon to try to set the ARCHIVE tag at the file
> level, as file-level archiving is already dealt through
> org-archive-location and friends.  These standard files can optionally
> be included with vA (or C-u M-x org-agenda-archives-mode).
>
> > *How the above could be done, please?*
>
> I don't see a built-in way to do it, though I think the patch below may
> be sufficient to provide the behavior you want.  It doesn't consider any
> of the tag inheritance variables, but that's probably okay given that
> those aren't considered for handling :ARCHIVE: subtrees either.
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] agenda: Consider FILETAGS for archive skipping
>
> * lisp/org-agenda.el (org-agenda-skip): Consider skipping all entries
> in a file if org-archive-tag is set via FILETAGS.
> ---
>  lisp/org-agenda.el | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/org-agenda.el b/lisp/org-agenda.el
> index 9c73d0d6c..8ed5e402d 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-agenda.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-agenda.el
> @@ -4082,8 +4082,10 @@ (defun org-agenda-skip ()
>      (when (or
>            (save-excursion (goto-char p) (looking-at comment-start-skip))
>            (and org-agenda-skip-archived-trees (not
> org-agenda-archives-mode)
> -               (get-text-property p :org-archived)
> -               (org-end-of-subtree t))
> +               (or (and (get-text-property p :org-archived)
> +                        (org-end-of-subtree t))
> +                   (and (member org-archive-tag org-file-tags)
> +                        (goto-char (point-max)))))
>            (and org-agenda-skip-comment-trees
>                 (get-text-property p :org-comment)
>                 (org-end-of-subtree t))
> --
> 2.26.2
>
>
>