Re: `nnmail-split-fancy' regexp

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>]

On Jul  7, 1999, Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@digitivity.com> wrote:

Alexandre> OTOH, it might break existing code that relies on the
Alexandre> existing format.  In this sense, `.*' would be better.

> Perhaps '*' might be best - a real regexp won't begin with '*', so
> the software can distinguish it from true regexps for the traditional
> splitter[1], and users won't be confused whether it's part of the
> regexp for \& purposes.

I had found a way to arrange that `.*' was not surprising at all, and
the implementation has already been installed.  In particular, a `.*'
prefix won't change whether a trailing `\>' is added or not.

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