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From: a@9srv.net
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mg (Mail grep)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:01:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4429b0b7a9fb5d24bd5589aa993e94d1@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1951d16c09d1e307e14011689af73b93@9netics.com>

> also, i just looked at Mg. i'm not sure why i would do 'Mg foo bar
> baz' when i can do grep '(foo|bar|baz)'

I started off wanting to do "Mg foo bar baz". It was sort of a happy
implementation accident that foo et al get to be regexps. "Mg foo
bar baz" is easier to type when they're simple strings.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-19 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18 22:29 a
2008-11-18 22:54 ` erik quanstrom
2008-11-19  5:16 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-11-19 12:01   ` a [this message]
2008-11-19  6:00 ` akumar

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