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Re: Empty headline titles unsupported: Bug?


From: Nicolas Goaziou
Subject: Re: Empty headline titles unsupported: Bug?
Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 16:06:31 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

>> However, empty headline + tags is ambiguous. The right solution is to
>> disambiguate it by inserting "something" as the headline you want to
>> tag, like a non-breaking space.
>
> Yet, why not simply alter the headline parser a little bit to support
> empty titles + tag?

Because, as I wrote, this is ambiguous. You cannot distinguish the
following two cases:

  * :mytag:
  * :myheadline:

So, your patch would only move the problem elsewhere. 

I suggest to not tag emptiness. `org-set-tags' could raise an error in
this case.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou



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