Re: [PATCH] Org Capture Add Tags with org-toggle-tag

[Ihor Radchenko]

Kevin Foley <kevin@kevinjfoley.me> writes:

> I have a capture template which utilizes %^g to prompt me for a tag to
> add to a headline which already has a tag.  An example to demonstrate
> is:
>
> * TODO %? %^g                                             :foo:
>
> If I call this template and give it "bar" when prompted for a tag, it
> results in (where | is the cursor position):
>
> * TODO | :bar:                                            :foo:
>
> And bar is recognized as a tag.
>
> I've been able to resolve this with the attached patch.  However,
> looking at the git history of that code it seems the intent might have
> been to prevent some recursive resolution so I'm not sure if this breaks
> that.
>
> I've realized I could also attach the %^g to :foo: tag in the template
> and things work as expected but if that's the expectation then I think
> it's worth mentioning in the docstring for org-capture-templates.

It sounds logical to me that every %-escape will be replaced with
corresponding text. So, your toggle behaviour would actually be
surprising for me.

If you think that the existing docstring is confusing, could you provide
a patch explaining what is not clear?

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