Re: Access org-tag-alist from #+FILETAGS

[Charles <millarc@verizon.net>]

Nick,

Thank you. I'll give it a try.

Charlie Millar

On 3/13/2012 2:48 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:

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> Charlie Millar On 2/28/2012 2:28 PM, Charles wrote:
>>> I use a few tags and usually two or three will apply to all entries
>>> in a particular file, e.g. :work:Client:OpenFile: or :Personal:Home:
>>>
>>> All my tags are in my .emacs using the org-tag-alist and I want to
>>> use these consistently.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to access org-tag-alist from the in-buffer settings
>>> #+FILETAGS or #+TAGS? C-c C-c, of course, refreshes the local
>>> setting; C-c C-q gives an error(?) message "Before first headline at
>>> position 1 in buffer . . ."
>>>
>>> At the moment my work around is: start the file's first line with
>>> *<spc>#+FILETAGS, then C-c C-c, and after setting tags delete the
>>> *<spc>.
>>>
> Have you tried a setup file?
>
> tag.org:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+TAGS: one two three
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> and the "real" file is:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+SETUPFILE: tag.org
>
> #+TAGS: foo bar baz
>
> * two
> * four
> * three                                                                                                        :bar:baz:
> * one                                                                                                              :foo:
> * five                                                                                                         :foo:baz:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
> org-tag-alist
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> | one      |
> | two      |
> | three    |
> | :newline |
> | foo      |
> | bar      |
> | baz      |
>
> everything plus :newline (whatever that is).
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Nick
>
>