Re: re created using regexp-opt fails in an org agenda command

[Samuel Wales]

[following on my most recent post] or for example this one, perhaps it
is too obscure but i wonder if these emaiuls will be seen again.

not really asking for anything.  just want to know if they go anyplace.  thank.s

On 12/12/21, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> this bug is strange because it appears as if regexp-opt is broken, but
> the only likely difference is an org upgrade via git clone.
>
> in an org agenda command, the same set of org todo kw works if a
> regexp was created using mapconcat, but not with regexp-opt.
>
> i expected that regexp-opt with 'words is identical to the mapconcat
> version in functionality in this context.
>
> ===
>
> i am trying to upgrade to recent org 9.5 main.  [goal is to eventually
> use bugfix branch with a couple of patches.]  [on main, however, i
> intend to first try the batch agenda archive speedups.  current is org
> 9.4.6.  thank you very very much for those.]
>
> i am running 25.1.1
> i used git clone from savannah to get the org repo
> i have not tried -Q yet as that woudl require a lot of setup
> i compiled with make which defaulted to make oldorg
>
> in my current versin of org, this bug does not exist, even though
> regexp-opt should not have changed.
>
> ===
>
> here is the org-agenda-custom-commands command.  i have provided some
> raw strings produced by the commands.
>
> this version errors with "and: Invalid regexp: "Unmatched ( or \\("".
> toggling backtrace on does not produce a backtrace.
>
> but if the regexp-opt is commented out and mapconcat is uncommented,
> it does not produce an error and it works.
>
> it also works with the string /produced by/ mapconcat.  but it still
> fails with the string produced by regexp-opt.  i confirmed that the
> string version of the regexp-opt works using re-search-forward, so idk
> why it would not work from one version of org.
>
>             ("ne" "clean up by expired CLOSED"
>              tags (concat
>                    ;; the + makes no difference seemingly
>                    "+CLOSED<\"<-1w>\"&TODO={^"
>                    ;; "DONE"
>                    ;; (alpha-org-todo-of--regexp :doneish)
>                    ;; (apply #'append (mapcar #'alpha-org-todo-of
> '(:doneish)))
>                    (regexp-opt '("DONEKA" "DONE" "MOSTKA" "MOST"
> "ANYWAY" "DUPLICATEKA" "DUPLICATE" "MOOTKA" "MOOT" "WAKARANAI")
> 'words)
>                    ;;
> "\\<\\(ANYWAY\\|D\\(?:ONE\\(?:KA\\)?\\|UPLICATE\\(?:KA\\)?\\)\\|MO\\(?:OT\\(?:KA\\)?\\|ST\\(?:KA\\)?\\)\\|WAKARANAI\\)\\>"
>                    ;; (re-search-forward
> "\\<\\(ANYWAY\\|D\\(?:ONE\\(?:KA\\)?\\|UPLICATE\\(?:KA\\)?\\)\\|MO\\(?:OT\\(?:KA\\)?\\|ST\\(?:KA\\)?\\)\\|WAKARANAI\\)\\>")
> ;; this line works
>                    ;; (mapconcat #'identity (apply #'append (mapcar
> #'alpha-org-todo-of '(:doneish))) "\\|")
>                    ;; this line works
>                    ;;
> "DONEKA\\|DONE\\|MOSTKA\\|MOST\\|ANYWAY\\|DUPLICATEKA\\|DUPLICATE\\|MOOTKA\\|MOOT\\|WAKARANAI"
>                    "$}")
>
> thanks.
>
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