From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23974 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Oliva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: `nnmail-split-fancy' regexp Date: 07 Jul 1999 14:38:31 -0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161608 6113 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:53:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:53:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20708 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:49:36 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB01992; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:40:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:40:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11832 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:40:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from grande.dcc.unicamp.br (grande.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.1.11]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20471 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:39:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.7.11]) by grande.dcc.unicamp.br (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA22140; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:34:47 -0300 (EST) Original-Received: from cupuacu.lsd.dcc.unicamp.br (oliva@cupuacu.lsd.dcc.unicamp.br [143.106.24.145]) by amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA18057; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:34:42 -0300 (EST) Original-To: Toby Speight In-Reply-To: Toby Speight's message of "07 Jul 1999 15:28:30 +0100" Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070092 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.92) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23974 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23974 On Jul 7, 1999, Toby Speight 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. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva IC-Unicamp, Bra[sz]il {oliva,Alexandre.Oliva}@dcc.unicamp.br aoliva@{acm.org,computer.org} oliva@{guarana.com,{gnu,kaffe,samba}.org,{egcs,sourceware}.cygnus.com} *** E-mail about software projects will be forwarded to mailing lists