Re: Split mail on two headers

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> >>>>> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Harry  said:
> 
>   Harry> Not all of us know all the uses of evaling things, in this
>   Harry> case my aim was to try and learn more about what it meant by
>   Harry> comparing eval with eval of my existing "snippets" of mail
>   Harry> split phrases.  Not to determine if it was a complete
>   Harry> program.
> 
> These symbols are pseudo-variables, and Lars has made it so that
> these variables actually have values whenever his code evals the
> snippet.  As you haven't made sure these pseudo-variables have
> values before evaling the snippet, your eval failed.

This description is very inaccurate.  What really happens is that the
code walks through nnmail-split-fancy and "interprets" it, without
actually attempting to assign values and using the Lisp evaluator
directly.

> I think you need to test this stuff with B q which does the
> pseudo-variable thing.

`B q' invokes `nnmail-split-it'.

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