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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: `nnmail-split-fancy' regexp
Date: 04 Jul 1999 05:07:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hfnlkt8b.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Alexandre Oliva's message of "28 Jun 1999 16:11:28 -0300"

Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

> So, even though `.*' appears to be much more intuitive, it is not
> really that intuitive if you don't happen to know what's going on
> behind the scenes, so I'd rather have a prefix that is clearly not
> part of the regexp.  It might have been better to use a (cons 'partial
> "regex") to denote partial matches...

Yes, that sounds like a better idea than a "magic" prefix.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


  reply	other threads:[~1999-07-04  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-24  8:25 Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)
1999-06-24 18:26 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-06-25  7:52   ` Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)
1999-06-25  9:48     ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-06-25 10:28       ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-06-25 11:48         ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-06-25 12:51           ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-06-25  9:42   ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-06-25 12:25     ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-06-28 17:33       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-06-28 18:14         ` Aaron M. Ucko
1999-06-28 18:49           ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-06-28 19:11             ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-07-04  3:07               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1999-07-04 21:15                 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-07-04 22:54                   ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-07-07 14:28                   ` Toby Speight
1999-07-07 17:38                     ` Alexandre Oliva

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