Re: [O] Hyphens for tags, todo keywords, and properties

[Bernt Hansen]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> Samuel Wales <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> For some reason I can't get used to underscores[1] and I
>> want to use hyphens (i.e. "-") for tags, todo keywords, and
>> properties.
>> 
>
> I suspect that this is going to be difficult, if not impossible.
> In particular, tags and properties search uses - as a metacharacter,
> so having it appear as part of a tag or property would probably
> break things there.

How is tag filtering where you remove a tag with '-TAG' going to
distinguish between a tag with a - and tag you want to remove?

     (tags-todo "-WAITING-CANCELLED/!NEXT"

is that one tag to remove - WAITING-CANCELLED or is it two (-WAITING and 
-CANCELLED)?

-Bernt