Hi folks,
Today I stumbled across an instance where tag inheritance doesn't seem
to work as I expected it to.
I'm using GNU Emacs 23.0.92.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.7)
of 2009-04-12 on elegiac, modified by Debian, and Org-mode version
6.26trans.
Let's say I have an org file that records all the information for a
particular part of my life. Different parts of the file record
meetings, track projects and record notes and other
information. Here's what it might look like:
* Meetings
** Lunch with John :Restaurant:
<2009-04-27 Mon 12:30>
** Meeting with Fred :Office:
<2009-04-27 Mon 13:00>
* Projects
** Find Higgs Boson :Laboratory:
DEADLINE: <2009-04-27 Mon>
** Achieve World domination :Office:Laboratory:
SCHEDULED: <2009-04-28 Tue>
** Cook dinner :Kitchen:
* Notes :Info:
** Mary's phone numbers
- 1234-5678
- 0412-345-678
** Jenny's web page
- [[http://www.somewebpage.com][Jenny's web page]]
I have customised org-stuck-projects[fn:1] to ignore entries tagged
with the tag `Info'. org-use-tag-inheritance is set to `t'.
If I hit C-a # to list stuck projects I would only expect to see the
entry about cooking dinner listed. The `Notes' headline should be
ignored, as should the notes about Mary's phone number and Jenny's web
page, because they inherit the `Info' tag.
In practice, the `Notes' headline is ignored as expected. However, the
children are listed as stuck projects.
After all this I have realised it's probably more appropriate to use
properties rather than tags to do this sort of thing. Still, the
behaviour puzzles me a bit, so I thought it was worth asking about.
Is this behaviour incorrect? Or am I expecting the wrong thing?
* Footnotes
[fn:1] I had some trouble customising this variable in the usual way,
because the explanation at the end of the customize buffer somehow got
included in the sexp recorded in my .emacs. I deleted that line, reset
the customize buffer and started again, but with exactly the same
result.