From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75389 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: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:28:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87k4j2k7nh.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293013731 21388 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2010 10:28:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:28:51 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23741@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 22 11:28:47 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 1PVLw6-0004VZ-PY for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:28:47 +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 1PVLvu-0002yM-S5; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:28:34 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PVLvt-0002y8-Dx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:28:33 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVLvr-0003Xt-Gx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:28:32 -0600 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVLvq-0006Oi-7y for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:28:30 +0100 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104361C089FA for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:28:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D8B41C00150 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:28:25 +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 fXGjLQkGtS92 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:28:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-104-133.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.104.133]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:28:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1D897CA2A0; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:28:24 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I wonder if there's anything GOOD on tonight? In-Reply-To: (Steinar Bang's message of "Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:16:14 +0100") 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:75389 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: >>>>>> Andreas Schwab : > >> Russ Allbery writes: > >>> Practically speaking, what this means is that you need to write: > >>> ("subject" ".*\\[some-list\\].*" "some-list") > >> Or make them word characters. > > Making [ and ] word characters for something like this, sounds like a > receipe for confusion. Why? That's the whole point of 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."