Re: Empty headline titles unsupported: Bug?

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yet, why not simply alter the headline parser a little bit to support
>> empty titles + tag? Such headlines are used in some of the tests. See
>> the attached patch.
>
> I'm in favor of this change...
>
> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
>> Because, as I wrote, this is ambiguous. You cannot distinguish the
>> following two cases:
>>
>>   * :mytag:
>>   * :myheadline:
>
> ... because I'm not convinced by the above example: I agree this is
> syntactically ambiguous, but as a human I would understand that Org
> would parse
>
>   * :myheadline:
>
> as [beginning of a headline + empty heading + tag].
>
>> So, your patch would only move the problem elsewhere. 
>
> Nicolas, do you strongly feel against this change?  Is moving the
> problem elsewhere is creating more problems I might have overlooked?
>
>> I suggest to not tag emptiness. 
>
> I'd rather allow empty headlines with tags, this seems a useful way
> of filtering/searching contents.
>
> WDYT?

I don't have anything new to bring to this discussion. I don't feel
strongly against anything.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou