[Orgmode] Trouble with Properties and Sparse Trees/Agenda View

2009-04-04 Thread Tom Shannon
In my never ending search for good organizational tools I've come back to try org-mode again. The concept of using tags wasn't that appealing to me but the addition of properties and columns makes it now very feasible. I am, however, running into problems associated with these new features. I'm

Re: [Orgmode] Trouble with Properties and Sparse Trees/Agenda View

2009-04-04 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Tom, welcome back. Your search fails because "-" is an operator in tags/property searches. Therefore it should not be used as a character in a property name. A search Contact-Name="Shannon" will search for entries that do have the tag "Contact", but that do not have a property "Name" wi

Re: [Orgmode] Trouble with Properties and Sparse Trees/Agenda View

2009-04-04 Thread Samuel Wales
For what it's worth, I have never been able to get used to midcaps, underscores, or runtogetherwords. I like hyphens too. :) Would be splendid in tags also. How about escaping with \ ? And escaping \ with \\ . Pro: might work, is the expected behavior, easy to document. Con: will need specia

Fwd: [Orgmode] Trouble with Properties and Sparse Trees/Agenda View

2009-04-05 Thread Carsten Dominik
Begin forwarded message: From: Carsten Dominik Date: April 5, 2009 8:56:13 AM GMT+02:00 To: Tom Shannon Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Trouble with Properties and Sparse Trees/ Agenda View On Apr 5, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Tom Shannon wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote