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From: Mats Kindahl <mats.kindahl@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Resolve regexp ambiguity for item headers
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:19:40 +0200
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To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
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Thanks for clearing it up Bastien,

Nicolas, do you have the patch somewhere so that I can take a look at it?

Best wishes,
Mats Kindahl

On 09/19/2012 11:14 AM, Bastien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>   * The regular expression matches completely empty headlines, so maybe
>>>     the intention is to allow matching items with just a todo keyword?
>> Yes, it is.
> FWIW I confirm it is.
>
>> Note that I'm not convinced by empty headlines nor do I use them, but as
>> an outliner, Org should accept them nonetheless. 
> Indeed.  I once removed the support for empty headlines but Carsten
> reminded me that we always supported them, so we should continue to
> support them.
>
>> The question is: how much of the code base shares this opinion?
> Well, hopefully stating the above with clear things up -- and make 
> it easier to find out of some parts of the code don't support empty
> headlines.
>

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