Hi Bastien,

I'm using emacs -u NONE with emacs 27.0.50
and Org mode version 9.2.5

And I'm not seeing this expected behavior.

I have the following simple foo.org file for my agenda:
* TODO Foo
* TODO Pre Class
* TODO Again

I'm using the built-in agenda view for TODO entries ("t")
and I'm searching using

Pre\sClass
{Pre\sClass}
Pre Class
"Pre Class"

And the entry is not *marked* in the agenda, but there are messages
saying "1 entries marked for bulk action"

If I search for "Pre Clas" and "Pre\sCl" etc. the entries are marked.

If I search for "Class" (no quotes) then there's no match.  However, if I
search for "Cla" (no quotes) then there is a match and the heading is
marked.

So, it appears there's a problem *if the match ends on the last character
of the heading*.

In fact, I can replicate the problem by searching in the agenda manually by
searching for "Class"
(no quotes) :) and then calling (call-interactively 'org-agenda-bulk-mark)
- the mark is not made and
there's a message "user-error: Nothing to mark at point"

Not sure how to fix it but wanted to show my awesome debugging skills :)))

Thanks,
--Nate

Thanks,
--Nate



On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 5:22 PM Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to use org-agenda-bulk-mark-regexp and trying to search
> > for
> > headings having "Pre Class".
> >
> > None of the combinations have worked so far (I've tried with quotes
> > and without quotes in the prompt)
>
> There is nothing special with the regexps you need to enter with
> `org-agenda-bulk-mark-regexp', you can use the same syntax you would
> use for, e.g., C-u C-s in Emacs.
>
> Note that only the text of the headline is considered, not part of
> the agenda line that are not the heading itself (e.g. todo keywords,
> tags, etc.)
>
> > Pre Class
>
> should work
>
> > Pre\sClass
>
> => Pre\s-Class should work
>
> > Pre\\sClass
>
> nope
>
> > Pre.*Class
>
> should work
>
> > {Pre Class}
>
> nope.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>