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Re: [O] inheritance of mutually exclusive tags


From: Nicolas Goaziou
Subject: Re: [O] inheritance of mutually exclusive tags
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:26:28 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

yanmcbe <address@hidden> writes:

> Org-mode allows marking a set of tags as mutually exclusive. It also allows
> the inheritance of tags.
>
> (from now on I am talking only about these mutually exclusive tags)
>
> When a tag is set in a parent, but also in a child, what I expect to happen
> is that the child is not included in searches/selections with the parent
> tag.
>
> In the example [0], a search for black (e.g. C-/ m black <ret>) should not
> match poodle, because it is white.
>
> Now I realize that the mutually exclusive tag concept is probably only a
> convenience for adding tags with C-c. And it doesn't seem to have any other
> implications, but it would be nice to have. Do you think this is a
> possibility or that I could get this behaviour some other way?

I'm late to the party, but it sounds like a good idea. It would need to
be properly documented however, as it could be surprising.

Would you want to provide a patch for that?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou



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