Re: Programmatically set TODO labels per file?

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> as you discovered, spaces can work for todo kw for at least some
> purposes.  [i have one, because i prefer space to snake_case and
> kebab-case might not search well.]  but you should check to see if it
> is guaranteed to work.  i vaguely recall spc is not allowable.
>
> if it were guaranteed to work, then there would likely be a mechanism
> to include it in the #+ syntax.  :)

Indeed, I am aware that spaces are not so welcome in some places
:). However this works fine:

(setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "first label" "second label")))

If it is guaranteed or not I have no idea, maybe some other APIs in org
are expecting labels to be single words, but for simple purpose it seems
to work. #+ could actually use just "" as grouping items or {}. For
example: 

#+TODO: "item one" "item two" ... "item n"

or with {}

#+TODO: {item one} {item two} ... {item n}

When I tried, I got citation characters included in my label, which
wasn't really what I wanted either :).



>
>
> On 4/29/21, Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> wrote:
>> Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:49:54PM +0200, Arthur Miller wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have a simple question, but I wasn't able to find answer on the web,
>>>> so finally I'll try my luck here.
>>>>
>>>> I know I can setq org-todo-keywords with a list '((sequence "TODO"
>>>> DONE")), as an example. But what variable is used for per-file keywords?
>>>> Once that are set with #+TODO: ... line?
>>>>
>>>> I guess when org mode parses a file when starting up the mode, it has to
>>>> parse that line into some var, where do I find it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> /a
>>>>
>>>
>>> https://orgmode.org/manual/Per_002dfile-keywords.html
>>
>> Thanks Rusell; but I have seen the manual as I wrote. I am aware I can
>> use
>>
>> #+TODO:
>>
>> syntax to set per file keywords. I wanted to do this from lisp, since I
>> can't use labels with multiple words with that syntax since spaces are
>> used as delimiters for keywords, but I can pass strings (with spaces)
>> with lisp.
>>
>>
>>