Arthur Miller <arthur.mil...@live.com> writes: If anyone is interested, this is how I understand the org TODO per file parsing:
The file is parsed in org-collect-keywords-1 in org.el. Each #+TODO: line is lumped into one single string, which is a problem when strings with spaces a concerned. Multiple #+TODO: lines will end up in final multiple strings added into an alist which has a first element a "TODO" string. The right thing would be to parse multiple strings per each #+TODO: line. Now the org-collect-keyword-1 is not a trivial one, so it would take me quite some time to understand, so I'll pass. The thing I did that worked for me is wrong super-hackish thing, just an experiment, so to say. I have simply refactored the code where the string obtained from org-collect-keywords is parsed, which is the very last part of org-set-regexps-and-options, where main action seems to take place. That let's me do what I wanted. It will completely replace whatever was specified with #+ syntax, and the fontification won't be done either. Also if file is reverted than #+ will completely replace what was set with lisp. So not a clean thing, probably nothing to be used by anyone, but it does what I roughly need for my init file :-).
#+TODO: one two #+TODO: three #+TODO: four #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun org-todo-per-file-keywords (kwds) "Sets per file TODO labels. Takes as argument a list of strings to be used as labels." (let (alist) (push "TODO" alist) (dolist (kwd kwds) (push kwd alist)) (setq alist (list (nreverse alist))) ;; TODO keywords. (setq-local org-todo-kwd-alist nil) (setq-local org-todo-key-alist nil) (setq-local org-todo-key-trigger nil) (setq-local org-todo-keywords-1 nil) (setq-local org-done-keywords nil) (setq-local org-todo-heads nil) (setq-local org-todo-sets nil) (setq-local org-todo-log-states nil) (let ((todo-sequences alist)) (dolist (sequence todo-sequences) (let* ((sequence (or (run-hook-with-args-until-success 'org-todo-setup-filter-hook sequence) sequence)) (sequence-type (car sequence)) (keywords (cdr sequence)) (sep (member "|" keywords)) names alist) (dolist (k (remove "|" keywords)) (unless (string-match "^\\(.*?\\)\\(?:(\\([^!@/]\\)?.*?)\\)?$" k) (error "Invalid TODO keyword %s" k)) (let ((name (match-string 1 k)) (key (match-string 2 k)) (log (org-extract-log-state-settings k))) (push name names) (push (cons name (and key (string-to-char key))) alist) (when log (push log org-todo-log-states)))) (let* ((names (nreverse names)) (done (if sep (org-remove-keyword-keys (cdr sep)) (last names))) (head (car names)) (tail (list sequence-type head (car done) (org-last done)))) (add-to-list 'org-todo-heads head 'append) (push names org-todo-sets) (setq org-done-keywords (append org-done-keywords done nil)) (setq org-todo-keywords-1 (append org-todo-keywords-1 names nil)) (setq org-todo-key-alist (append org-todo-key-alist (and alist (append '((:startgroup)) (nreverse alist) '((:endgroup)))))) (dolist (k names) (push (cons k tail) org-todo-kwd-alist)))))) (setq org-todo-sets (nreverse org-todo-sets) org-todo-kwd-alist (nreverse org-todo-kwd-alist) org-todo-key-trigger (delq nil (mapcar #'cdr org-todo-key-alist)) org-todo-key-alist (org-assign-fast-keys org-todo-key-alist)) ;; Compute the regular expressions and other local variables. ;; Using `org-outline-regexp-bol' would complicate them much, ;; because of the fixed white space at the end of that string. (unless org-done-keywords (setq org-done-keywords (and org-todo-keywords-1 (last org-todo-keywords-1)))) (setq org-not-done-keywords (org-delete-all org-done-keywords (copy-sequence org-todo-keywords-1)) org-todo-regexp (regexp-opt org-todo-keywords-1 t) org-not-done-regexp (regexp-opt org-not-done-keywords t) org-not-done-heading-regexp (format org-heading-keyword-regexp-format org-not-done-regexp) org-todo-line-regexp (format org-heading-keyword-maybe-regexp-format org-todo-regexp) org-complex-heading-regexp (concat "^\\(\\*+\\)" "\\(?: +" org-todo-regexp "\\)?" "\\(?: +\\(\\[#.\\]\\)\\)?" "\\(?: +\\(.*?\\)\\)??" "\\(?:[ \t]+\\(:[[:alnum:]_@#%:]+:\\)\\)?" "[ \t]*$") org-complex-heading-regexp-format (concat "^\\(\\*+\\)" "\\(?: +" org-todo-regexp "\\)?" "\\(?: +\\(\\[#.\\]\\)\\)?" "\\(?: +" ;; Stats cookies can be stuck to body. "\\(?:\\[[0-9%%/]+\\] *\\)*" "\\(%s\\)" "\\(?: *\\[[0-9%%/]+\\]\\)*" "\\)" "\\(?:[ \t]+\\(:[[:alnum:]_@#%%:]+:\\)\\)?" "[ \t]*$") org-todo-line-tags-regexp (concat "^\\(\\*+\\)" "\\(?: +" org-todo-regexp "\\)?" "\\(?: +\\(.*?\\)\\)??" "\\(?:[ \t]+\\(:[[:alnum:]:_@#%]+:\\)\\)?" "[ \t]*$")) (org-compute-latex-and-related-regexp))) (org-todo-per-file-keywords '("label 1" "label 2" "something" "last one")) #+end_src * Test