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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:01:42 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Mg (Mail grep)
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> 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.