Re: [O] [RFC] [PATCH] Changes to Tag groups - allow nesting and regexps

[Gustav Wikström]

Hi again,

Patch attached. 

If someone could apply it I'd be glad.

Best Regards
Gustav

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sgeorgii . [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 12:05
> To: Gustav Wikström <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [O] [RFC] [PATCH] Changes to Tag groups - allow nesting and
> regexps
> 
> Indeed, the {.*} works. Thank you!
> 
> If we could still use the empty parameter when filtering by "no tags"
> it would be really sweet :)
> 
> On 25 November 2015 at 13:26, Gustav Wikström <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Indeed, I do get the same error as you. I'll look into it a bit. Not sure 
> > if the
> behavior is documented though.
> >
> > As a workaround for you sgeorgii (and for everyone else with this problem I
> suppose :-) ), you can exclude tags instead of filtering. The behavior is 
> similar
> except instead of only showing the rows with the provided tag, it excludes all
> rows with the provided tag. If you provide a regular expression, eg. {.*}, 
> then all
> rows with tags are hidden from the agenda-view.
> >
> > So, to recreate with commands, what I just tried to describe with words:
> > M-x org-agenda
> > \ (exclude) (alternatively use the combination of / (filter) -
> > (exclude) ) <TAB> (exclude by tag) {.*} <ENTER>
> >
> > Voila!
> >
> > Best regards
> > Gustav
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: sgeorgii . [mailto:address@hidden
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 08:51
> >> To: address@hidden; address@hidden; emacs-
> >> address@hidden
> >> Subject: [O] [RFC] [PATCH] Changes to Tag groups - allow nesting and
> >> regexps
> >>
> >> Dear Gustav, Eric,
> >>
> >>
> >> I was referred to your subject discussion in respect to my problem:
> >>
> >> With new version of org-mode I am now unable to filter agenda to show
> >> only non-tagged items:
> >>
> >>
> >> > "sgeorgii ." <address@hidden> writes:
> >> >
> >> >> Hello!
> >> >>
> >> >> Having installed latest org 8.3.2 I am now having the subject problem:
> >> >>
> >> >> M-x org-agenda
> >> >>
> >> >> When in agenda:
> >> >>
> >> >> / (filter)
> >> >>
> >> >> TAB (filter by tag)
> >> >>
> >> >> <Enter> (without entering any tags for "Tag:" question)
> >> >>
> >> >> Before this gave me agenda view filtered to show only non-tagged items.
> >> >> I believe this was right and just fine.
> >> >>
> >> >> Now I have error:
> >> >>
> >> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range "" 0 1)
> >> >>   org-agenda-filter-make-matcher-tag-exp(("+") 43)
> >> >>   org-agenda-filter-make-matcher(("+") tag t)
> >> >>   org-agenda-filter-apply(("+") tag t)
> >> >>   org-agenda-filter-by-tag(nil)
> >> >>   call-interactively(org-agenda-filter-by-tag nil nil)
> >> >>   command-execute(org-agenda-filter-by-tag)
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I believe 6c6ae99 (org-agenda: Filtering in the agenda on
> >> > grouptags,
> >> > 2015-01-24) changed this behavior.  The discussion about these
> >> > changes is here (sorry, the gmane web interface is down for me):
> >> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2015-01/msg00618.h
> >> > tml
> >> >
> >> > org-agenda-filter-by-tag should be fixed to handle the empty tag
> >> > case that causes the error above, either by behaving as before or
> >> > by giving a clear error.  I haven't looked closely enough at the
> >> > changes or the discussion to guess whether that commit intended to
> >> > preserve the empty tag behavior you were relying on.  Is that behavior
> documented anywhere?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Kyle
> >>
> >>
> >> Any help?

0001-org-agenda-Filter-empty-tags.patch
Description: 0001-org-agenda-Filter-empty-tags.patch