From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32110 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raymond Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Default subscribed newsgroups as regular expression Date: 13 Aug 2000 12:14:36 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <$.m38zu1sc1f.fsf@rscholz.dyndns.org> References: Reply-To: Raymond Scholz NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168436 17920 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:47:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:47:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11524D051E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 06:20:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id FAC09118; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 05:20:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 13 Aug 2000 05:17:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA01365 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 05:17:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 004B1D051E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 06:18:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 9557 invoked by uid 0); 13 Aug 2000 10:17:35 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO mde1.home) (194.77.21.25) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 13 Aug 2000 10:17:35 -0000 Original-Received: (from rscholz@localhost) by mde1.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01429; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:14:40 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Now-Playing: Nothing Mail-Copies-To: never X-Face: ]O)gWYBDa6]mUo+jd;T+SS:"a9;q430I61MJBsu=]#J@'s0VWK;5#tHP;wj3tQf<522A0>r Wv|{j 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/