From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75378 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tommy Kelly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What's wrong with this fancy split? Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:17:01 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87k4j2k7nh.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292977220 19201 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2010 00:20:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:20:20 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23730@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 22 01:20:14 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 1PVCRC-0004mH-NB for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:20:14 +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 1PVCR5-0000KC-OX; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:20:07 -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 1PVCR4-0000Jw-Cn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:20:06 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVCR3-0003aW-HP for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:20:06 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVCR2-0003tU-QI for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PVCR1-0004if-QO for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:20:03 +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 ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:20:03 +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 ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:20:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 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:nRTU/AYZtB/Br/dWUiKu3PbQE6Y= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75378 Archived-At: Russ Allbery writes: > Practically speaking, what this means is that you need to write: > > ("subject" ".*\\[some-list\\].*" "some-list") > > instead. The regular expressions only match at word boundaries, which > usually isn't what you want when they start or end with punctuation. Excellent! A thousand thank-yous. May piles of gold and silver be discovered in your front yard along with the legal paperwork proving that it belongs to you. thanks, Tommy