Search for tags in TODO item in certain states

Search for tags in TODO item in certain states

[Wanrong Lin]

Hi,

Can anyone please show me how to search for a tag in TODO items that are 
in certain states only? For example, I want to have a list of TODO items 
with "buy" tag, but not those in "DONE" or "CANCELED" state. I don't see 
how to do it by reading the documentation for 
org-agenda-custom-commands. Thanks a lot.

Wanrong

Re: Search for tags in TODO item in certain states

[Bastien]

Wanrong Lin <wrglin@gmail.com> writes:

> For example, I want to have a list of TODO items with "buy" tag, but
> not those in "DONE" or "CANCELED" state.

C-c a m buy/-DONE-CANCELED

(assuming C-c a calls the `org-agenda' command)

The slash separates tags from TODO keywords, as explained here:

  (info "(org)Tag searches")

PS: Maybe the use of uppercase letters for both tags and TODO keywords
is a bit confusing in the documentation. It could be useful to be able
to distinguish between them even when just skimming the doc.

I only capitalize TODO keywords ("NEXT") and the first letter of tags
("Home"). I don't know if this convention is largely adopted, but this
is the one I would propose for the doc.  Comments?

-- 
Bastien

Re: Search for tags in TODO item in certain states

[Carsten Dominik]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:21, Wanrong Lin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone please show me how to search for a tag in TODO items that 
> are in certain states only? For example, I want to have a list of TODO 
> items with "buy" tag, but not those in "DONE" or "CANCELED" state. I 
> don't see how to do it by reading the documentation for 
> org-agenda-custom-commands. Thanks a lot.

Currently this is not possible, but the proposal is good.  Will be
in 5.11, using the prefix argument.

Thanks!

- Carsten

Re: Search for tags in TODO item in certain states

[Carsten Dominik]

Sorry, I replied to the wrong message, this was my answer to your
the question about removing the scheduled time string.

- Carsten

On Oct 4, 2007, at 9:45, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:21, Wanrong Lin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone please show me how to search for a tag in TODO items that 
>> are in certain states only? For example, I want to have a list of 
>> TODO items with "buy" tag, but not those in "DONE" or "CANCELED" 
>> state. I don't see how to do it by reading the documentation for 
>> org-agenda-custom-commands. Thanks a lot.
>
> Currently this is not possible, but the proposal is good.  Will be
> in 5.11, using the prefix argument.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
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