how to limit to several authors

how to limit to several authors

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello

As I understand  gnus-summary-limit-to-author allows regexp.
So I would like to limit the summary to 2 authors 
george and jim say
however when I try
(gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george \\| jim" nil)
or
(gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george | jim" nil)
or
(gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george \\\\| jim" nil)
etc 

All the time I get that the match is not found, but it seems that the
function interprets my input literary as a string not as a regexp.

What is my mistake.

Thanks 

Uwe Brauer

Re: how to limit to several authors

[Dan Christensen]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> (gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george \\\\| jim" nil)

This form works for me, if I get rid of the space characters:

  (gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george\\\\|jim" nil)

A question from me:  Can I limit to all messages to *or* from a
particular person?

Dan

Re: how to limit to several authors

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

   Dan> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
   >> (gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george \\\\| jim" nil)

   Dan> This form works for me, if I get rid of the space characters:

   Dan>   (gnus-summary-limit-to-author "george\\\\|jim" nil)


That is extremely odd, I tried that for
(gnus-summary-limit-to-author "Uwe\\\\|Dan" nil)

It ognus-0.3 returned not match found?!

A Bug?!
   Dan> A question from me:  Can I limit to all messages to *or* from a
   Dan> particular person?

   Dan> Dan

Re: how to limit to several authors

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello


I Forget to add
(gnus-summary-limit-to-author "uwe\\|dan" nil)
works though, sorry.

Another question suppose some function would return me a list of names
like
(eval-expression '(bbdb-list-names) nil) would return me, say in the minibuffer
("Uwe" "Paul" "George" "Ringo")

How could I use gnus-summary-limit-to-author   in order to display
those?

Uwe