From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54556 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: era@iki.fi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What Headers Are Checked With split-fancy 'any' Date: 30 Oct 2003 17:10:15 +0200 Organization: People Who Are Not Old Enough For Unix (Honorary Member Emeritus) Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87llr2bw5r.fsf@era.iki.fi> References: <767k2oj7p0.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> <768yn33kld.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> <873cdbdx4e.fsf@era.iki.fi> <76r80u256s.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067526640 28584 80.91.224.253 (30 Oct 2003 15:10:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3097@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Oct 30 16:10:38 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFERa-00080P-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:10:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AFERL-0008Bn-00; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:10:23 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AFERG-0008Bi-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:10:18 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51AB83A004C for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:10:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFERF-0005Ga-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:10:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFERD-0005GS-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:10:15 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFERD-0007Q1-00 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:10:15 +0100 Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54556 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54556 On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:35:20 +0100, Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> posted to gmane.emacs.gnus.general: > On Thu, Oct 30 2003, Jake Colman wrote: >>>>>>> "e" == era writes: e> Actually it's "zero or one". The operator * is "zero or more". > Sure, sorry I only checked Jake's text roughly. (Of course. I just wanted to correct any possible misunderstandings. It seems that Jake is asking a lot about regular expressions here.) > [ ] >> Actually I'm embarressed to say that I just realized I have The Book >> sitting on my shelf! Does XEmacs follow those rules or is it a >> different dialect? > There are subtle differences, depending on your (X)Emacs version. The > online manual should tell you all. See (info "(Emacs)Regexps") or > (Info-goto-node "(XEmacs)Regexps"). The book covers Emacs as one "dialect" of regular expressions, and the question (as I interpreted it) is whether Emacs and XEmacs use the same regex flavor. The answer to that I still believe to be yes. /* era */ -- The email address era the contact information Just for kicks, imagine at iki dot fi is heavily link on my home page at what it's like to get spam filtered. If you 500 pieces of spam for want to reach me, see instead. each wanted message.