From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75374 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What's wrong with this fancy split? Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:41:53 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292971365 27612 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2010 22:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:42:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Tommy Kelly Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23726@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 21 23:42:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PVAuk-0005d4-Av for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:42:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PVAu7-0008G4-J1; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:41:59 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PVAu5-0008Fl-Ux for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:41:57 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVAu4-0003Gs-HQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:41:57 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVAu3-00029q-7c for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 132D81800AEE; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:41:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC941C00139; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:41:54 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id y-FSmYVNVO6f; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:41:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-110-120.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.110.120]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:41:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id A70FDCA2A0; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:41:53 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: INSIDE, I have the same personality disorder as LUCY RICARDO!! In-Reply-To: (Tommy Kelly's message of "Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:29:48 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.91 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75374 Archived-At: Tommy Kelly writes: > This fancy split is meant to match emails with "[some-list]" in the > subject. > > ("subject" "\\[some-list\\]" "some-list") > > But it isn't. Any ideas why? Because [ and ] are not word characters. See nnmail-split-fancy-syntax-table. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."