Re: [Orgmode] Wrong category in agenda view if undefined ?

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Sebastian,

On Feb 16, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Sebastien Delafond wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is a follow-up for Debian bug #550540[1], which is basically  
> that with
> the following org snippet :
>
>  * Tasks
>  ** TODO nocat2
>     SCHEDULED: <2010-02-16 Tue>
>     [2010-02-16 Tue]
>  #+CATEGORY: cat2
>  ** TODO cat2
>     SCHEDULED: <2010-02-17 Wed>
>     [2010-02-17 Wed]
>  #+CATEGORY: last cat2
>
> you get this agenda view:
>
>  Week-agenda (W07):
>  Monday     15 February 2010 W07
>  Tuesday    16 February 2010
>    last cat2:  Scheduled:  TODO nocat2
>  Wednesday  17 February 2010
>    cat2:       Scheduled:  TODO cat2
>  Thursday   18 February 2010
>  Friday     19 February 2010
>  Saturday   20 February 2010
>  Sunday     21 February 2010
>
> Should there really be a "last cat2" category for that first entry,
> instead of no category at all ?

Using multiple #+CARTEGORY lines is deprecated anyway. The supported  
way for multiple categories is to use properties that apply to a given  
tree.

There is no such thing as an empty category in Org-mode - Org-mode  
would derive one from the file name if necessary.

http://orgmode.org/manual/Categories.html#Categories

Best wishes

- Carsten


> Cheers,
>
> --Seb
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/550540
>
>
>
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- Carsten