on Wed Sep 28 2011, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos-AT-hp.com> wrote: > Dave Abrahams <d...@boostpro.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and >> what in fact did happen. You don't know how to make a good report? See >> >> http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback >> >> Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> The documentation doesn't specify whether the cons cells are ANDed or >> ORed together when selecting refile targets. >> > > I'm not really sure what you mean, so let me tell you how I understand > this variable and then come back to the question of what you would like > to see. > > AFAIK, the variable is used to construct a set of possible targets: you > select the items to refile and then you select *one* item from this > set. There is completion: as you type, the set is cut down to whatever > subset matches your current input - org does not let you finish until > the refiling target has been specified uniquely. > > Each element of the org-refile-targets list generates a set of posssible > targets. The whole set is the union of these partial sets. Since ORs map > to unions and ANDs to intersections, I guess one could say that they are > ORed together, but personally I find it confusing to think of it in > these terms.
Then think of it / describe it in terms of set unions. ORing predicates creates a set union. > Assuming that this is correct, does it help? Yes. > And if it is correct and it does help, what would you change in the > docs to incorporate this information? And how? I would change the doc for org-refile-targets to say that the resulting list of targets is the union of all the targets matched by each cons cell. I think you could take that pretty much verbatim. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com
