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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem with property matching
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:12:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob5627gx.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4EE54E6B-582D-4E9B-A641-520E37AC26EA@gmail.com

Carsten Dominik writes:
> I think there is an error in the property matching regexp.  It will
> not match a line where the property value is empty.

See 3c933adaf6 and 68276fd62d for how this regex developed, the
requirement of the whitespace after the colon was in the original regex
from Nicolas.  I think that makes sense given the description of
properties as key-value pairs.  In other places we use "()" for an empty
value aka nil.

>  I propose the following change, which makes the value part optional:

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index 7a4d244..4641ce5 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -6205,7 +6205,7 @@ Use `org-reduced-level' to remove the effect of `org-odd-levels'."
>  Match group 3 will be set to the value if it exists."
>    (concat "^\\(?4:[ \t]*\\)\\(?1::\\(?2:"
>  	  (if literal property (regexp-quote property))
> -	  "\\):\\)[ \t]+\\(?3:[^ \t\r\n].*?\\)\\(?5:[ \t]*\\)$"))
> +	  "\\):\\)\\([ \t]+\\(?3:[^ \t\r\n].*?\\)\\)?\\(?5:[ \t]*\\)$"))

The extra group introduced should be shy.

> Why \\(?3:[^ \t\r\n].*?\\) instead of \\(?3:.*?\\) ?

In fact, this would be preferred (you need whitespace after the colon
for an empty key):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index c9055a6..d2aff2f 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -6203,7 +6203,7 @@ (defsubst org-re-property (property &optional literal)
 Match group 3 will be set to the value if it exists."
   (concat "^\\(?4:[ \t]*\\)\\(?1::\\(?2:"
 	  (if literal property (regexp-quote property))
-	  "\\):\\)[ \t]+\\(?3:[^ \t\r\n].*?\\)\\(?5:[ \t]*\\)$"))
+	  "\\):\\)[ \t]+\\(?3:.*?\\)\\(?5:[ \t]*\\)$"))
 
 (defconst org-property-re
   (org-re-property ".*?" 'literal)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

since it still passes the test suite (which may be accidental since I
don't think there's any whitespace after :PROPERTIES: or :END: and we
may actually need to enforce this).  If you don't want to require
whitespace after the colon for an empty key you'd do this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index c9055a6..d2aff2f 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -6203,7 +6203,7 @@ (defsubst org-re-property (property &optional literal)
 Match group 3 will be set to the value if it exists."
   (concat "^\\(?4:[ \t]*\\)\\(?1::\\(?2:"
 	  (if literal property (regexp-quote property))
-	  "\\):\\)[ \t]+\\(?3:[^ \t\r\n].*?\\)\\(?5:[ \t]*\\)$"))
+	  "\\):\\)[ \t]*\\(?3:.*?\\)\\(?5:[ \t]*\\)$"))
 
 (defconst org-property-re
   (org-re-property ".*?" 'literal)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

but this fails Babel header arg tests.  I don't think there's anything
that specifically tests for empty values since it wasn't specified or
possible so far, but this somehow messes up property inheritance.  You'd
need to explicitly disallow :PROPERTIES: and :END: as a key, since this
will now be matched by the regex.


Regards,
Achim.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-26 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-26 12:27 Problem with property matching Carsten Dominik
2013-11-26 17:00 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-11-26 21:12 ` Achim Gratz [this message]

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