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Re: [Orgmode] property searches for #+CATEGORY
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Bastien |
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Re: [Orgmode] property searches for #+CATEGORY |
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Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:42:25 +0000 |
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Hi Adam,
Adam Spiers <address@hidden> writes:
> Again, at risk of being pedantic I would describe my requirement
> slightly differently. (N.B. I can already search through multiple
> files.)
Thanks for the very clear & interesting explanations.
> In fact, the only thing missing is that the code for doing a
> property-based tag search doesn't honour #+CATEGORY, only CATEGORY
> properties.
Right. Now I understand it would be consistent to include #+CATEGORY in
the category *search*. I was mainly choking on what Carsten mentionned
in his reply about whether org-entry-get should return the category as
defined by #+CATEGORY -- I guess this is the only consistency-hole.
But since where are speaking about search interface, this is not a
problem, that's right.
> Firstly categories present the user with another interface to learn
> about. I am certainly not complaining, but you cannot discount the
> extra complexity they introduce, and therefore we should be careful
> about introducing yet more complexity.
I didn't want to add complexity, but rather expressivity.
My line of reasoning was this one:
1. it is not recommended to use #+CATEGORY twice in a file
2. then the main use of #+CATEGORY will be for grouping *files*
3. if we use #+CATEGORY for grouping files (or tasks across files) and
:CATEGORY: for grouping tasks, let's separate these two mechanismes
more clearly
4. this would spare us the cost of deciding what value `org-entry-get'
should return when asked for the category, in case a file uses both
#+CATEGORY and :CATEGORY:...
But again, this line depends on how fussy we are about (4) and search
considerations ask for flexibility -- not fussiness :)
>> And besides these search considerations, I really believe that
>> having several groups of agenda-files would help.
>
> Quite possibly, though probably not for me :-) Can you suggest a use
> case or two?
It's mainly for publishing: for now I have to put each project in each
directory so that `org-publish-project-alist' DTRT. I'd rather publish
groups of files, thus being able to quickly decide what file is in what
group.
> Argh, way too much time spent on this list today ;-)
:)
--
Bastien
Re: [Orgmode] property searches for #+CATEGORY, Tim O'Callaghan, 2007/11/07
- Re: [Orgmode] property searches for #+CATEGORY, Adam Spiers, 2007/11/07
- Re: [Orgmode] property searches for #+CATEGORY, Tim O'Callaghan, 2007/11/07
- Re: [Orgmode] property searches for #+CATEGORY, Adam Spiers, 2007/11/07
- Re: [Orgmode] property searches for #+CATEGORY, Tim O'Callaghan, 2007/11/07
- Re: [Orgmode] property searches for #+CATEGORY, Adam Spiers, 2007/11/07