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