Re: fancy split trouble

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:39:48 +0100 Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote: 
>
> AS> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> I feel strongly the above should be the default.  It's what people
>>> expect and it makes no sense to stop matching on word boundaries.
>
> AS> Of course, this will break a lot of people's split patterns.
>
> I'm willing to do this, especially if there's a global Gnus
> `gnus-fancy-split-simplified' variable to control it, which is t in new
> releases but missing in older releases.  Users simply set
> `gnus-fancy-split-simplified' to nil and voila, they are back to the old
> split behavior.
>
> As I said, I'm basing my proposal on years of confusion about the
> current behavior.  I think it will make Gnus better to bite the bullet
> and make simple regexes the default.

But I was so pleased to finally (after three years) figure out how it
works!

But yes, there's enough that's confusing about gnus, I vote for the
change. And as prominent a notification as possible.

Gnus should have a permanently-connected "self" nntp server that it can
use to send messages to the user. "Hey, you need to adjust your split
regexps!" Or, "Hey, there's a new XXX variable!" Or, "Hey, I deleted all
your archived messages!"

Mostly joking...