Samuel Wales <samolog...@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.mil...@live.com> wrote: >> Russell Adams <rlad...@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. >> >> >>