Hi Bastien, > > I think that anything that works despite being designed and documented > > otherwise is confusing to the user and should be considered a bug. > > I'm happy that it no longer works and hope that it stays that way. > > I think tags are clearly documented as being properties of the > headlines -- if there is places in the manual that we can improve > in this respect, please suggest a patch.
I'm not talking about the manual. In my opinion, if there is a function that works only on headlines according to the manual, then it *must not* work in any other place. Otherwise some users might try the function they once heard of in a sense not specified in the documentation (here: in a table) and see that it works, and be surprised when it no longer does (in a future version of org-mode, or on a different computer). Therefore such "ghost features" must actively be eliminated. To me, the documentation is the leading specification of a piece of software. Anything the software doesn't do that is in the docs is a bug, but likewise anything it does do which the docs don't cover is also a bug. > I don't think it's reasonable to document the fact that tags are > not meant to be used in tables, blocks, lists, timestamps, etc. I fully agree. András
