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I want to create Org Mode agenda views or sparse trees with tag inheritance disabled so that tagged headlines are included but children are not. I do not want to turn off tag inheritance globally. I thought this could be accomplished by setting options for custom commands, as in the following example:

 (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
    '(("y" tags "tag1|tag2"
       ((org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance nil)))))

However, the resulting agenda view includes all children of the tagged headlines. The desired result can be achieved by disabling tag inheritance globally, (setq org-use-tag-inheritance nil), but I do not want to disable tag inheritance globally, only for the agenda custom command.

Alternatively I have tried to create the same filter using a sparse tree:

   (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
    '(("Y" tags-tree "tag1|tag2"
      ((org-show-context-detail 'minimal)))))

But this returns a sparse tree including all children and ancestors of the tagged headlines. Again, if I disable tag inheritance globally I achieve the desired result. What am I am missing?

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The docstring of org-agenda-use-tag-inheritance says that:

In tags/tags-todo/tags-tree agenda views, tag inheritance is controlled by org-use-tag-inheritance.

Both of these work as expected even when org-use-tag-inheritance is non-nil globally:

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("y" tags "tag1|tag2"
         ((org-use-tag-inheritance nil)))))

(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
      '(("Y" tags-tree "tag1|tag2"
         ((org-use-tag-inheritance nil)))))
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  • I see you're setting this in code above, but do you have recommendations for how to use the Customize UI for Org Agenda Custom Commands? I am trying to use a local setting > "any variable" > and then org-use-tag-inheritance as nil, but I don't see the changes taking effect. Jun 14 at 16:55
  • Disregard, forgot to quote the value. For others, this works if you set this variable within the Customize UI with a "any variable" local setting as 'org-use-tag-inheritance set to nil Jun 14 at 18:16

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