On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not an Emacs bug. Your regular expression whittles down to:
>
> (defvar hang-re "^\\*+ *Mawile\\(?:[ ]+\\)+stuff\\(?:[ ]+\\)*$")
>
> or even
>
> (defvar hang-re "\\(?:[ ]+\\)+s")
>
> That expression matches the string of spaces separating the first
> Mawhile headline from its tags in many many different ways, and is one
> of the type of regular expressions warned about in the (Emacs Lisp
> Reference) manual. We shouldn't be generating it, and it is a bug, but
> it is in Org, not Emacs.
>

Ah... Well, this is the reason I posted it here first.

In that case, the bug is present as late as
a97f2c1830910d7a239dcbb98e200a6e4038acaa.