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From: Raymond Scholz <ray-2000@zonix.de>
Subject: Re: Default subscribed newsgroups as regular expression
Date: 13 Aug 2000 12:14:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <$.m38zu1sc1f.fsf@rscholz.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3n1iifekj.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I guess that would make change, but it's problematic changing a
> string variable into a regexp variable.  For instance, "no.general"
> (which is the general Norwegian newsgroup) would, interpreted as a
> regexp, match "alt.really.nasty.porno.general".

Uh, oh...  For backward compatibility we can't change the old variable
into a regexp, yes I see.

> And some group names aren't valid regexps, and so on.

Sure?  I thought group names are built like
[a-z][a-z0-9]+(\.[a-z0-9]+)+ or something like that (could not find
the appropriate RFC) which should always give a valid regexp.

> An introducing a new variable for this seems kinda like overkill, no?

Since I'm not going to code this (no lisp, no fun), you're probably
right.  Meanwhile I discovered `gnus-group-apropos', which can be
helpful.

Cheers,
  Ray
-- 
Raymond Scholz - rscholz@tzi.de - PGP - http://www.tzi.de/~rscholz/



      reply	other threads:[~2000-08-13 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-10 20:03 Raymond Scholz
2000-08-12 19:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-08-13 10:14   ` Raymond Scholz [this message]

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