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

[Samuel Wales]

On 2012-02-05, Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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)?

With \\- in the middle, it should be one.