Re: Bug: org-set-tags-command deletes inherited tags [9.3.7 (9.3.7-18-g093b47-elpaplus @ /home/ionasal/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20200810/)]

[Allen Li]

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:

> That looks good as far as fixing the misbehavior you report.  I wonder
> though whether there's a deeper org-get-tags issue here worth
> considering.  Its documentation says
>
>     ... the returned list of tags contains tags in this order: file
>     tags, tags inherited from parent headlines, local tags.
>
> But it's not specified what happens when a tag is both local and
> inherited.  The current implementation drops the local tag variant
> through its delete-dups call:
>
>     (delete-dups
>      (append (org-remove-uninherited-tags itags) ltags))
>
> I would have expected the local tag to get priority here.  If that were
> the case (e.g., something like below), that would also solve the issue
> you describe.
>
> Thoughts?

That sounds reasonable, let me prepare a new patch.

>
> -- >8 --
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index fb95590fc..3dac42b7b 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -12310,8 +12310,10 @@ (defun org-get-tags (&optional pos local)
>                                            (org--get-local-tags))
>                                    itags)))
>              (setq itags (append org-file-tags itags))
> -            (delete-dups
> -             (append (org-remove-uninherited-tags itags) ltags))))))))
> +            (nreverse
> +             (delete-dups
> +              (nreverse (nconc (org-remove-uninherited-tags itags)
> +                               ltags))))))))))
>  
>  (defun org-get-buffer-tags ()
>    "Get a table of all tags used in the buffer, for completion."