From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23797 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Oliva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: `nnmail-split-fancy' regexp Date: 04 Jul 1999 18:15:36 -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 1035161466 3999 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:51:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:51:06 +0000 (UTC) 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 RAA27586 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:17:51 -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 QAB28127; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 16:17:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 04 Jul 1999 16:16:58 -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 QAA26536 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 16:16:46 -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 RAA27530 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:15:44 -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 SAA12482 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:11:46 -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 SAA17306 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:11:47 -0300 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "04 Jul 1999 05:07:48 +0200" Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070089 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.89) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23797 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23797 On Jul 4, 1999, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Alexandre Oliva 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. OTOH, it might break existing code that relies on the existing format. In this sense, `.*' would be better. Even if we have to special-case it in the splitting engine and in the docs, it would be backward compatible. What do you think is more important? -- 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@{gnu.org,kaffe.org,{egcs,sourceware}.cygnus.com,samba.org} *** E-mail about software projects will be forwarded to mailing lists