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