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@ 2021-09-17 20:35 Bob Newell
  2021-09-18  6:15 ` (unknown) Andreas Schwab
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From: Bob Newell @ 2021-09-17 20:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ding


Running Emacs 27.2.1 and Gnus 5.13.

I have emails with multiple attachments. I can successfully
save them one by one with "K o". When I want to save all at
once with "X m" (gnus-summary-save-parts) I get the prompt to
save type */*, which I accept, then the folder, which I
accept. The command returns with no error message but nothing
is saved anywhere that I can find. No messages in the
*Message* buffer either.

Any thoughts appreciated.

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

- Via GNU/Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB


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* Re: (unknown)
  2021-09-17 20:35 Bob Newell
@ 2021-09-18  6:15 ` Andreas Schwab
  2021-09-18 15:57   ` gnus-summary-save-all-parts Bob Newell
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Schwab @ 2021-09-18  6:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bob Newell; +Cc: ding

On Sep 17 2021, Bob Newell wrote:

> save them one by one with "K o". When I want to save all at
> once with "X m" (gnus-summary-save-parts) I get the prompt to
> save type */*,

That should be a regexp, not a glob pattern.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
"And now for something completely different."


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* gnus-summary-save-all-parts
  2021-09-18  6:15 ` (unknown) Andreas Schwab
@ 2021-09-18 15:57   ` Bob Newell
  2021-09-18 17:35     ` gnus-summary-save-all-parts Bob Newell
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bob Newell @ 2021-09-18 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ding


Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Sep 17 2021, Bob Newell wrote:
>
>> save them one by one with "K o". When I want to save all at
>> once with "X m" (gnus-summary-save-parts) I get the prompt to
>> save type */*,
>
> That should be a regexp, not a glob pattern.

Ah, thank you. That's it, and a more careful look at the elisp
code now also makes it clear. ".*" works perfectly.

But that raises the question, why should */* be the default? I
certainly found it misleading. You would think, great, this is
a glob pattern for everything, but it actually matches nothing!

With aloha from Hawai`i nei,

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

- Via GNU/Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB


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* Re: gnus-summary-save-all-parts
  2021-09-18 15:57   ` gnus-summary-save-all-parts Bob Newell
@ 2021-09-18 17:35     ` Bob Newell
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bob Newell @ 2021-09-18 17:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ding

>>> save them one by one with "K o". When I want to save all at
>>> once with "X m" (gnus-summary-save-parts) I get the prompt to
>>> save type */*,
>>
>> That should be a regexp, not a glob pattern.
>
> Ah, thank you. That's it, and a more careful look at the elisp
> code now also makes it clear. ".*" works perfectly.
>
> But that raises the question, why should */* be the default?

Finally resolved all of this. */* was somehow stuck in my
history. 'image/.*' is the original default. I guess the doc
string could be a little better but in the end this is user
error on my part.

-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

- Via GNU/Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB


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