Re: [Orgmode] Automatic global tag list?

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I just want to keep tag names consistent across files and I want to know what 
tags are in use in all files as I add a tag. However, it's too tedious to 
manually maintain org-tag-alist because I use a large and arbitrary number of 
tags at any given time.

It would also be great if there was a way to list all tags in global use. (I'm 
thinking something like a tag cloud here.)

BTW, where is the documentation? I'm using orgmode 7.03, perhaps it's not 
documented there?

U Avalos


--- On Tue, 11/23/10, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Carsten Dominik <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Automatic global tag list?
> To: "Uriel Avalos" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 11:50 AM
> 
> On Nov 23, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Uriel Avalos wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:52:34 +0100
> > Carsten Dominik <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> On Nov 23, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Uriel Avalos wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Is there a way to auto-magically construct the
> global tag list (org-
> >>> tag-alist)?
> >>> That is, tags would get added to the global
> list as you add them.
> >>> 
> >>> Alternatively, is there a way to construct the
> global list of all tags
> >>> in use (in the agenda files or given set of
> files)?
> >> 
> >> There is the function
> `org-global-tags-completion-table' which will
> >> construct this list for the agenda files or for
> any other list of
> >> files you are giving it.  For each of these
> files it will at the tags
> >> defined in #+TAGS: lines as well as any other tags
> being used in that
> >> file.
> >> 
> >> HTH
> >> 
> >> - Carsten
> >> 
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply. However, I'm afraid that I'm not
> (yet) a lisp
> > programmer. What would the definition of such a
> function look like?
> > This function seems to be undocumented.
> 
> The function is there, and it is documented.  But I
> think they key question is:  what you you want to do
> with the list of tags.  If you tell us, maybe you can
> get an answer!
> 
> - Carsten
> 
>