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 wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 4:12 PM Kyle Meyer 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 > >