From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: setting gnus-list-identifiers using G p
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 21:11:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh811rtq.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tw0crlsh.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Sat, 09 Sep 2017 15:25:50 +0100")
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> I am trying to set the gnus-list-identifiers for a particular group to
> the regular expression "\[[^]]*\] *" using "G p" to edit the group's
> parameters, e.g. to remove "[some cruft] " from the subject
> line. However, if I type that in, I lose the backslashes; if I double
> them up, both stay. I cannot seem to get a single backslash in the
> expression and gnus does not seem to understand the regexp with two
> backslashes.
Are you sure that the backslashes are doubled? Emacs will usually
display a string containing a single backslash like "foo\\bar" because
that's the string read syntax.
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