Re: `nnmail-split-fancy' regexp

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

On Jun 25, 1999, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote:

> Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo) <jens-ulrik.petersen@nokia.com> writes:

>> Couldn't we then have a variable (say
>> `nnmail-split-fancy-match-words') defaulting to t, giving the current
>> bahaviour, to control this?  If this is acceptable I happy to send in
>> a patch to implement it.

> Since it is so easy to include ".*" in the regexes where you don't
> want word matching, I'm somewhat reluctant to agree to this.

It doesn't work in all cases.  Assume the (bug-)?libtool example I was
trying to work around.  I ended up trying to match
".*[< ]libtool@gnu\\.org", but it wouldn't work because it wouldn't
match the beginning of a word if the header line was just:
To: libtool@gnu.org

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