From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75398 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: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:34:06 -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 1293021276 23357 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2010 12:34:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:34:36 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23750@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 22 13:34:32 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 1PVNtn-0005GF-Fe for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:34:31 +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 1PVNtf-0004rA-I5; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:34:23 -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 1PVNte-0004qs-2I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:34:22 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVNtd-0005ix-6E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:34:21 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PVNtc-0000Nt-G7 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:34:20 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PVNta-0005Ct-FB for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:34:18 +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 13:34:18 +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 13:34:18 +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:K1PIB1IEVC3XfhH/Kt9YockOEeE= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75398 Archived-At: In response to >> Making [ and ] word characters for something like this, sounds like a >> receipe for confusion. Andreas Schwab writes: > Why? Because the original writer of "sounds like a recipe for confusion" is understanding the reader where you Andreas, with respect, are not. This is not about the code. It's about the people using the code. You clearly get the former. Maybe not so much the latter when they are less knowledgeable about this stuff than you. > That's the whole point of nnmail-split-fancy-syntax-table. If that's really the case. If the whole point of nnmail-split-fancy-table is to ensure no confusion in this area, then it's failing to achieve its point with what I'm guessing is a reasonable subset of those who could suffer from said confusion. But that's OK. That's what documentation is for :-) Tommy