Re: carriage-returns and nnimap

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:58:29 -0500 Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu> wrote: 

AC> I had noticed that gnus-registry-split-fancy-with-parent had stopped
AC> working with "sender" splitting. I finally decided to track this down.

AC> Looking at the registry I noticed that the "sender" and "subject" fields
AC> (and some others) had a spurious space at the end of them (which is
AC> wrong), while an old copy of the registry (from months ago) has no such
AC> spaces (which is right). I can't pinpoint exactly when this changed so
AC> I'm not sure of the exact cause.

AC> Tracing this a bit I found that 'gnus-get-newsgroup-headers translates
AC> \r into spaces, so I suspect that this is where the extra spaces are
AC> coming from. I added a call to 'nnheader-remove-cr-followed-by-lf in
AC> 'gnus-get-newsgroup-headers just before the \r->space translation and it
AC> seems to fix the problem. 

AC> I didn't want to just push this in case I've missed something. The whole
AC> carriage-return thing in nnimap confuses me.

I hadn't noticed, thanks for catching that.

I think your fix is correct, but if necessary I can always adjust
gnus-registry.el alone to trim those extra CRs.

Ted