Re: [BUG] org-agenda-filter and hyphens in category names

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

i was unaware of this feature, bound to / in maint, so i tried it in
maint before the fix and got a different result.

all of my categories have hyphens, and many of my files.  i suspect on
linux, osx, bsd*, etc., hyphenated filenames are common.

my categories look like e-remember, e-refile, e-jinsei, o-bastien
[just kidding], o-matt-lundin [ditto], etc.  this allows me to have
broad meta-categories like computer, org, extra, medical.

so i tried it with e-, and it completed to e-refile without providing
any choice.  this is just incorrect.  i really like hyphens so i hope
they become first-class if possible.

On 9/4/20, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
>> I'm just getting around to exploring the function org-agenda-filter
>> introduced last year. (Due to busyness, I was running an older version
>> of Org Mode last year for fear of breaking features I relied on.)
>>
>> I like the tab completion. However, I'm finding that the completion for
>> categories often fails because of hyphens in my file and category names.
>
> Thanks for reporting this.  I pushed a fix in the maint branch which
> allows for such category names to be enclosed within double quotes
> when the user wants to complete them -- the quotes helps not being
> confused by the hyphen when reading the complete filter string, which
> might contain other syntacticly meaningful hyphens.
>
> I haven't fixed the case for filetags but shouldn't filetags follow
> the same convention than mere tags of not allowing "-" ?
>
> Let me know if I (or the documentation) miss something and if the
> fix is good enough for you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>
>


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