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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Resolve regexp ambiguity for item headers
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:14:39 +0200
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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.

-- 
 Bastien