From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75262 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tommy Kelly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Error in (info "(gnus)Splitting Mail") Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:33:47 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87fwtwzqm5.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87aak4488w.fsf_-_@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292711664 16393 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2010 22:34:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 18 23:34:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PU5M1-0003JT-IA for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:34:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PU5M0-0001lP-Vz for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:34:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49473 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PU5Lv-0001lK-Ub for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:34:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PU5Lr-0003JM-0y for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:34:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PU5Lq-0003J7-QD for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:34:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PU5Ln-0003Bp-JE for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:34:03 +0100 Original-Received: from cpe-70-112-150-104.austin.res.rr.com ([70.112.150.104]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:34:03 +0100 Original-Received: from tommy.kelly by cpe-70-112-150-104.austin.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:34:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-70-112-150-104.austin.res.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8yLfRWVOmaSLCGlWRv+VJvXiWDQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14333 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75262 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Štěpán Němec writes: > >>> ("list.\\1" "From:.* \\(.*\\)-list@majordomo.com") >>> >>> So shouldn't the dot after "majordomo" be double escaped? >> >> Yeah, that's obviously just an error in the documentation, but a mostly >> harmless one, as "." matches the dot anyway... > > It's more readable without the \\, and the chance for false positives is > minuscule, so I think I'll just leave it as is. So: The person who wrote the stuff, understands it in intense detail without the documentation, and therefore has little or no need of the documentation thinks the documentation is more readable as it is. The person who is trying to learn the stuff, and must rely heavily on said documentation thinks the documentation would be more readable with a a minor fix. Hmmm. :-) Tommy