From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75404 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tommy Kelly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Just shoot me now Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:18:03 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87bp4es21b.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293027522 21298 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2010 14:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:18:42 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23756@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 22 15:18:38 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 1PVPWX-0003cQ-RJ for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:18:38 +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 1PVPWL-0005RR-8v; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:18:25 -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 1PVPWJ-0005R9-BO for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:18:23 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVPWH-0004Pz-NJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:18:22 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVPWF-0002Sk-JW for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:18:19 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PVPWE-0003Qg-JZ for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:18:18 +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 ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:18:18 +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 ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:18:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 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:pevrjl5A1pTEPo9ghLVZR/5fftI= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75404 Archived-At: In response to Reiner pointing out: >> | 3. You can set the INVERT-PARTIAL flag in your split rules of the >> | `(FIELD VALUE ...)' types, aforementioned in this section. If the >> | flag is set, word boundaries on both sides of a word are ignored >> | even if `nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words' is `nil'. >> | Contrarily, if the flag is set, word boundaries are not ignored >> | even if `nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words' is non-`nil'. >> | (New in Gnus 5.10.7) Richard Riley writes: > Point 3 is non parseable by anyone without a degree in elisp. Actually for me the problem is more subtle. *Once* Reiner pointed it out I could see what was going on. Worse, I'd already seen that part of the docs. And therefore: > So the question is really "why is this missed by everyone who trys > splitting"? Exactly. So I reckon that in my case at least part of the reason is that the split documentation is *in general* sufficiently tough-going, and enough of it is simply obscure to anyone not already familiar with what it's saying, that I (quite reasonably) end up not trusting it and not reverting to it even when it would in fact help me. (Hence, for example, me googling for info on syntax tables rather than going first to the emacs help). Some of the documentation reminds me of signage in London Heathrow Airport. Once you know where you're going, the signs make perfect sense. But I think if we keep chipping away -- and with occasional assistance from the ueber-coders (genuflects in Andreas's direction :-p ) -- we'll come up with some useful improvements. Tommy