negating a filetag on an entry?

negating a filetag on an entry?

[John Kitchin]

If I use a line like:

#+FILETAGS: f16-06625

and I want a headline in the file to not have that tag, is that possible?

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Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
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Re: negating a filetag on an entry?

[Juan Pechiar]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 08:20:58AM -0400, John Kitchin wrote:
> If I use a line like:
>
> #+FILETAGS: f16-06625
>
> and I want a headline in the file to not have that tag, is that possible?

There is a hack by David Maus to remove redundant (already inherited)
tags from a heading:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-01/msg00630.html

Regards,
.j.

Re: negating a filetag on an entry?

[John Kitchin]

That is neat, but not quite what I had in mind.

I have a roster of headlines, one for each student in a course. The file
is tagged with #+FILETAGS: course_name


During a semester, students drop, and I have tried a few different
models to designate that, e.g. move the headline to an archived
headline, or tagging them as :dropped:. 

I use this file like a database to generate lists of students, emails,
etc... but I want to exclude dropped students from that list. 

I can use this as a "query" to org-map-entries

+course_name-dropped

but it seems like the best idea is to just archive the headline to
another file or delete the headline.

Juan Pechiar writes:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 08:20:58AM -0400, John Kitchin wrote:
>> If I use a line like:
>>
>> #+FILETAGS: f16-06625
>>
>> and I want a headline in the file to not have that tag, is that possible?
>
> There is a hack by David Maus to remove redundant (already inherited)
> tags from a heading:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-01/msg00630.html
>
> Regards,
> .j.


-- 
Professor John Kitchin
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
@johnkitchin
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu