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