Re: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.91 is released

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Neil Crellin <neilc@wallaby.cc> writes:
> 
> > A fairly common artifice in mailcaps are things like the following:
> > 
> >   audio/*; /usr/bin/play %s
> >   
> >   image/*; xv %s
> >   
> >   video/*; xanim %s
> > 
> > In the example I was trying, mailcap-possible-viewers on an
> > image/gif was found to match no viewer with the above mailcap
> > definition when string= replaced string-match.  With string-match,
> > the viewer was determined to be "xv %s".
> 
> How can that work?  string-match works with regexps, not with
> wildcards.

I imagine lars kept the logic from the original 'mm.el' that converts
wildcard matches like that to regular expressions.

Something along the lines of:

	(setq minor
	      (cond
	       ((= ?* (or (char-after save-pos) 0)) ".*")
	       ((= (point) save-pos) ".*")
	       (t (buffer-substring save-pos (point)))))

I guess there should be a regexp-quote in there for the last case.  I have
no idea where this code lives in the currently redesigned 'mm-*'
libraries.  Lars?

-Bill P.