From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14940 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hrvoje Niksic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Split mail on two headers Date: 08 Apr 1998 11:44:27 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154051 19116 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:47:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:47:31 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12174 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 02:45:22 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA23926 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 04:45:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAH06353; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 04:45:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 08 Apr 1998 04:45:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA06339 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 04:44:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 27746 invoked by uid 504); 8 Apr 1998 09:44:34 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27743 invoked from network); 8 Apr 1998 09:44:31 -0000 Original-Received: from jagor.srce.hr (hniksic@161.53.2.130) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 8 Apr 1998 09:44:30 -0000 Original-Received: (from hniksic@localhost) by jagor.srce.hr (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA18080; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:44:27 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Hrvoje X-Face: Mie8:rOV<\c/~z{s.X4A{!?vY7{drJ([U]0O=W/xDi&N7XG KV^$k0m3Oe/)'e%3=$PCR&3ITUXH,cK>]bci&Ff%x_>1`T(+M2Gg/fgndU%k*ft [(7._6e0n-V%|%'[c|q:;}td$#INd+;?!-V=c8Pqf}3J In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "08 Apr 1998 11:37:23 +0200" Original-Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.4/XEmacs 21.0(beta34) - "Oberhasli" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14940 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14940 Kai Grossjohann 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'. -- Hrvoje Niksic | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- * Q: What is an experienced Emacs user? * A: A person who wishes that the terminal had pedals.