Re: Using regular expressions in custom agenda views

[Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:48 PM Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> wrote:

> More wonkiness:
>
> This custom view (no regexes) doesn't work, but manually entering projectA
> (no quotes) in a tags-todo search
> *does* work - so maybe my problem isn't regexes, but something else with
> my org-agenda-custom-commands . . . .
>
> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>  '(("1" tags-todo "projectA")))
>
>
Okay - calm down - it was the fact that I was using the "tags" search to
manually search and
my custom view was using tags-todo.

Regexes are working now - sorry for the spam!

--Nate


>
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:39 PM Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Still isn't working with org-mode 9.3.7 (org-20200622) and
>> using emacs -q
>>
>> I have this file:
>>
>> * One
>>  :project:a:work:boss:projectA:
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :Effort:   1:00
>> :END:
>> * Two
>>  :projectB:
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :Effort:   2:00
>> :END:
>>
>> * Bar
>>  :pt:project:b:
>>
>>
>> And this custom view returns nothing:
>> (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>>  '(("1" tags-todo "{projectA}")))
>>
>> If I do a tags-todo search manually and use this syntax: {projectA}
>> it works.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:28 PM Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> GRRRR I tried "package update" and package mgr in Emacs kept telling me
>>> that Org 9.3.6 was the latest.  Now I look @ orgmode.org and see 9.3.7
>>> - I'll try that first
>>> after I figure out how to get that "package" or whatever that thing is
>>> to actually show the latest
>>> versions of packages.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 5:27 PM Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 4:12 PM Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nathan Neff writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> > I'm having a difficult time using regular expressions in custom
>>>>> > "tags-todo" agenda views.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Is it possible to create custom agenda views using regular
>>>>> expressions,
>>>>> > and if so, do I need to escape certain characters?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I can't get a simple regex like this to work, so I'm suspecting that
>>>>> > I'm doing something wrong or, it's simply not possible to create
>>>>> custom
>>>>> > agenda views that use regular expressions to search for tags.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > For example, this expression doesn't even find headings with
>>>>> :projectA:
>>>>> > as a tag
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   (setq org-agenda-custom-commands
>>>>> >   '(
>>>>> >      ("1" tags-todo "{projectA}")))
>>>>>
>>>>> My understanding is that the above should work.  I tried your
>>>>> org-agenda-custom-commands value with this agenda file:
>>>>>
>>>>>     * TODO a
>>>>>  :projectA:
>>>>>     * TODO b
>>>>>  :projectB:
>>>>>     * TODO c
>>>>>  :project:
>>>>>
>>>>> With an otherwise vanilla configuration and master (0c1740c91) checked
>>>>> out, I see
>>>>>
>>>>>     Headlines with TAGS match: {projectA}
>>>>>     Press ‘C-u r’ to search again
>>>>>       scratch:    TODO a
>>>>>                     :projectA:
>>>>>
>>>>> I see the same thing on maint (3ed035ce3).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks - I'm using Org 9.3.6 and I'm getting no matches when using
>>>> emacs -q
>>>>
>>>> I had some other issues w/regexes and Bastien fixed them in "maint":
>>>>
>>>> https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/commit/c0d08b7efe740c17a3eec28984161c05e43da5ef
>>>>
>>>> Is it relatively easy to try org-mode's "maint" version (e.g. just
>>>> check out branch from
>>>> https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode ?)  I'll try using the "maint"
>>>> version to see what's up.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> --Nate
>>>>
>>>>
>>>

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