From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: negating a filetag on an entry? Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:28:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160715191731.GA5028@soloJazz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47622) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bOQZd-0004n3-Ez for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:28:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bOQZZ-0001zY-9u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:28:08 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22a]:34437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bOQZZ-0001zU-4U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:28:05 -0400 Received: by mail-qt0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id u25so72972842qtb.1 for ; Sat, 16 Jul 2016 07:28:04 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <20160715191731.GA5028@soloJazz.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Juan Pechiar Cc: Emacs Org Mode Mailing List That is neat, but not quite what I had in mind. I have a roster of headlines, one for each student in a course. The file is tagged with #+FILETAGS: course_name During a semester, students drop, and I have tried a few different models to designate that, e.g. move the headline to an archived headline, or tagging them as :dropped:. I use this file like a database to generate lists of students, emails, etc... but I want to exclude dropped students from that list. I can use this as a "query" to org-map-entries +course_name-dropped but it seems like the best idea is to just archive the headline to another file or delete the headline. Juan Pechiar writes: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 08:20:58AM -0400, John Kitchin wrote: >> If I use a line like: >> >> #+FILETAGS: f16-06625 >> >> and I want a headline in the file to not have that tag, is that possible? > > There is a hack by David Maus to remove redundant (already inherited) > tags from a heading: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-01/msg00630.html > > Regards, > .j. -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu