Re: Support for tagging (special) blocks

[Payas Relekar]

Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:

Tags are bit more generic though, and allow searching across not just
code blocks, but TODOs as well.

Thanks,
Payas

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 4:19 PM Sébastien Miquel <sebastien.miquel@posteo.eu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using tags on special blocks, src blocks and other, for two
>> purposes:
>>
>>   1. to control which blocks get exported, using the `#+exclude_tags`
>>      property.
>>   2. to fine tune the export, according to tags, of special blocks such as
>>      #+BEGIN_exercice                                            :hard:
>>      …
>>      #+END_exercice
>>
>> Does anyone think this is useful and might warrant adding support for ?
>>
>
> I think that using the #+header: property for something like this might be
> more canonical.
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Using-Header-Arguments.html
>
> Example:
>
> =====
>
> #+header: :tags noexport
> #+begin_foo
>
> ..
> #+end_foo
> =====
>
> or
>
> =====
>
> #+header: :tags hard
> #+begin_foo
>
> ..
> #+end_foo
> =====
>
> It's also relatively easy to parse these headers:
>
> =====
> (org-babel-parse-header-arguments (car (org-element-property :header
> special-block)))
> =====
>

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