On 09/10/2012 08:24 PM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Mats Kindahl writes: > >> I solved this issue by requiring that there should always be a headline >> text (this is after all an assumption made in the code) and rewrote the >> org-complex-heading-regexp accordingly. > Actually, I have recently committed a change going exactly the opposite > way. I'm not certain which solution is better, but I tend to think empty > headlines should be valid and parts of Org choking on empty headlines > should be fixed. Hi Nicolas, Interesting. :) Well... the most important point for me is that it shouldn't choke on these lines, but otherwise I'm open to suggestions. My rationale for doing it this way was: * The code I looked at assumes that the headline text is there, so it's likely that it's the common assumption. * It is clearly the case that todo keywords are optional. * It is not so clear that the headline text is optional However: * The regular expression matches completely empty headlines, so maybe the intention is to allow matching items with just a todo keyword? I would be very interested if anybody could shed some light on this. Best wishes, Mats Kindahl -- Senior Principal Software Developer Oracle, MySQL Department