Re: Empty headline titles unsupported: Bug?

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Sebastian Miele <sebastian.miele@gmail.com> writes:

> worg/dev/org-syntax.org is not clear about whether the title of a
> headline is allowed to be empty.  I occasionally (would like to) use
> headlines with empty titles, e.g., when a tag in some headline already
> provides all necessary information, and an additional title would
> duplicate that.
>
> Are empty headline titles meant to be supported?  If yes, then there are
> at least two bugs.  On
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> ,* A
> ,* :B:
> ,* C
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> org-element-parse-buffer and org-match-sparse-tree make the second
> headline have title ":B:" and no tags.

Empty headline titles are supported, and "org-syntax.org" makes it
clear. 

However, empty headline + tags is ambiguous. The right solution is to
disambiguate it by inserting "something" as the headline you want to
tag, like a non-breaking space.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou