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
>>
>>
>