Re: Feature request: exclude sub-trees by backend

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

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Edgar Lux <edgarlux@mailfence.com> writes:

> ...
>> I think that it would be ok to add such feature if multiple users are
>> interested.
>
> Similar (and may be the ignore-heading from ox-extra should also become standard, because I found it a lot):
>
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/75510
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/75573
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/60016

The suggestions to use backend-specific export tag in the links are used
as ugly workarounds. I am not sure if they justify adding a new feature
for Org mode. (Why would we add something with a purpose of being used
as a workaround instead of fixing the original problem, after all?)

As for ignore-heading, please search list archives - adding this feature
has been discussed many times and the author of Org export system
repeatedly opposed it. This is why:
https://list.orgmode.org/87mwdfzmox.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr/

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