Re: Splitting mail -- XEmacs 21.4 vs 21.5

[sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer)]

On  1 Mar 2004, Steve Youngs <- sryoungs@bigpond.net.au wrote:

> Now, you'd think that the exact same Gnus mail splitting rules would
> split mail into the same groups regardless of XEmacs version.  But
> you'd be wrong!
[...]
> In XEmacs 21.4.15 everything goes where you'd expect it to go.

> In XEmacs 21.5.16 (+CVS-20040227) everything goes to INBOX.
[...]
> I wonder what's gone a-drift in 21.5?  Nothing in the ChangeLogs
> really jumps out at me.

I had the same problem and use the following in my .gnus.el as
workaround.

(setq nnmail-split-fancy-syntax-table
  (let ((table (copy-syntax-table (standard-syntax-table))))
    ;; support the %-hack
    (modify-syntax-entry ?\% "." table)
    table))
;  "Syntax table used by `nnmail-split-fancy'.")

Gnus uses in the original code:

,------------------[ nnmail.el ]-----------------.
| (defvar nnmail-split-fancy-syntax-table         |
|   (let ((table (make-syntax-table)))            |
|     ;; support the %-hack                       |
|     (modify-syntax-entry ?\% "." table)         |
|     table)                                      |
|   "Syntax table used by `nnmail-split-fancy'.") |
`------------------------------------------------´

`make-syntax-table' seems to be broken in XEmacs 21.5.  That's seems
also to be related to a problem with syntax-table; cf.
<b9yfzd1tgvd.fsf@jpl.org>

See also the posting <v9brnotsm2.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> from
Reiner Steib which he crossposted also to XEmacs-beta (but it seems it
never eached the list).  Perhaps he should post it again or someone
should forward it?


   KP

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