Re: Using regular expressions in custom agenda views

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

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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")))



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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