Re: [PATCH] org.el: Improve automatic fast tag selection keys (was: Odd characters in the fast tags selection interface)

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Hanno Perrey <hanno@hoowl.se> writes:

> Good point. I attach a patch that does just that. After the '~'
> character, only "space" is assigned -- which feels like a hack, but
> means that the selection key field is empty and that the fields are
> still aligned nicely. Actually selection any of these items is not
> possible as space is assigned to clearing the tags. Should this break
> anything that I have missed in my (brief) tests, please let me know!
>
> Additionally, the range A-Z is used once 'z' is reached before assigning
> non-alphabetic (but reasonably-reachable) characters. In case that
> description is difficult to follow, I attach a screenshot of the
> modified code in action.

Thanks!
Applied onto main via 4db67da68 with minor amendments like adding double
space between sentences and capitalizing first word in sentences.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=4db67da68db820184bd9d4208c4f8bd7370ee9de

> Please note that I have not (yet) assigned copyright to the FSF.
> However, I believe that these changes are still trivial enough to
> qualify as TINYCHANGE.

You are good to go until 15LOC total contribution combined.

>> Finally, we may simply not list tags with keys beyond "z" at all only
>> indicating that there are more by showing some text at the end of the
>> menu.
>
> That might be an alternative, as I think not even all tags are shown
> now. Let me know should you rather go down that route instead.

We may, but then we need support from other users. Hiding staff will be
a breaking change, unlike the patch you propose, which barely improves
visuals.

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