Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Bernt,
On Jun 22, 2010, at 1:39 AM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
I still think 'TODO keyword' matches any todo keyword defined in
org-todo-keywords and maybe I need to be re-educated :)
Indeed, "TODO" is used in two different ways in the documentation.
When I talk about the TODO sparse tree, about the global TODO list
(C-
c a t), and the tags-TODO match,
this means not-done TODO items.
However, the phrase TODO keyword certainly includes DONE states. I
think we should keep it like this, and I will add the not-done in a
couple of places where it makes sense.
Here is a patch I am proposing for this. Please take a look if
this would be sufficient to clarify the issue.
Hi Carsten.
The patch you sent was whitespace damaged so I couldn't apply it to my
repository. Reading through the changes I think this helps a lot to
clarify things.
The only additional change I can think of that would be useful would
be
to explicitly state that using the agenda tags-todo or a tags search
with /! will only match not-done TODO keywords.
Maybe something like this?
(This adds one sentence before "Examples:" and reformats the
paragraph)
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diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index 17615e0..550394d 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -7009,12 +7009,13 @@ different way to test TODO states in a
search. For this, terminate the
tags/property part of the search string (which may include several
terms
connected with @samp{|}) with a @samp{/} and then specify a Boolean
expression just for TODO keywords. The syntax is then similar to
that for
-tags, but should be applied with care: for example, a positive
-selection on several TODO keywords cannot meaningfully be combined
with
-boolean AND. However, @emph{negative selection} combined with AND
can be
-meaningful. To make sure that only lines are checked that actually
have any
-TODO keyword (resulting in a speed-up), use @kbd{C-c a M}, or
equivalently
-start the TODO part after the slash with @samp{!}. Examples:
+tags, but should be applied with care: for example, a positive
selection on
+several TODO keywords cannot meaningfully be combined with boolean
AND.
+However, @emph{negative selection} combined with AND can be
meaningful. To
+make sure that only lines are checked that actually have any TODO
keyword
+(resulting in a speed-up), use @kbd{C-c a M}, or equivalently start
the TODO
+part after the slash with @samp{!}. Using @kbd{C-c a M} or
@samp{/!} will
+not match TODO keywords in a DONE state. Examples:
@table @samp
@item work/WAITING
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Thanks,
Bernt