Re: Agenda: How to bulk mark regex w/spaces?

[Nathan Neff]

Whoops sorry wanted to reference the source code:

https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/lisp/org-agenda.el#L10147

I think that the problem is the call to org-agenda-bulk-mark on line 10160 (it doesn't mark

if the point is at the EOL)

https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/lisp/org-agenda.el#L10160

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:49 AM Nathan Neff <address@hidden> wrote:

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 <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Nathan,

Nathan Neff <address@hidden> 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