From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
Subject: Re: `nnmail-split-fancy' regexp
Date: 04 Jul 1999 19:54:09 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <orpv28auwe.fsf@cupuacu.lsd.dcc.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Alexandre Oliva's message of "04 Jul 1999 18:15:36 -0300"
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On Jul 4, 1999, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> wrote:
> On Jul 4, 1999, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>> 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.
> 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.
It seems to me that the attached patch is fully backward-compatible,
and its outcome is not surprising, not even in terms of \N
substitutions.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-04 22:54 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
1999-07-04 21:15 ` Alexandre Oliva
1999-07-04 22:54 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
1999-07-07 14:28 ` Toby Speight
1999-07-07 17:38 ` Alexandre Oliva
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