From: Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: gnus-summary-save-all-parts
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 05:57:31 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mto9anbo.fsf_-_@emailmessageidheader.nil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtoabe8y.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:15:57 +0200")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-18 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-17 20:35 Bob Newell
2021-09-18 6:15 ` (unknown) Andreas Schwab
2021-09-18 15:57 ` Bob Newell [this message]
2021-09-18 17:35 ` gnus-summary-save-all-parts Bob Newell
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87mto9anbo.fsf_-_@emailmessageidheader.nil \
--to=bobnewell@bobnewell.net \
--cc=ding@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).