nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words

[Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr>]

Hi,

Id' like to draw attention on the following point. I have a rather long
nnmail-split-fancy list. I had this split rule :

("subject" "\\[ce\\]" foo.ce)

that was not working and I had much trouble in finding why. In fact,
that is because of interaction between
nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words and the status of [] that do not
belong to words in the default syntax table. While I'd like to retain
the default nil value for matching partial words, I'd expect also that
any regexp I put in the fancy split rule is taken for what it is.

I ended up in crudely patching nnmail-split-it in nnmail.el but that's
defintely not a clean answer to the problem. Maybe that's a limitation
of regexp/syntax tables after all.

BTW, all occurences of set-file-modes should be replaced with
gnus-set-file-modes for windows users'sake (at least under xemacs).

I'm using xemacs 21.5.b21 under native windows for what it worth.

--- nnmail.el	2006-02-01 13:51:57.000000000 +0100
+++ nnmail.el	2006-03-03 10:15:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -1436,7 +1436,10 @@
 		 (string= ".*" (substring value -2)))
 	    (setq value (substring value 0 -2)
 		  partial-rear ""))
-	(when nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words
+	(when 
+	    (or nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words
+		;; FP: if there are backets in the sequence, don't surround with <..>
+		(string-match "\\[.*\\]" value))
 	  (setq partial-front ""
 		partial-rear ""))
 	(setq regexp (concat "^\\(\\("
@@ -1907,7 +1904,7 @@
   (let ((coding-system-for-write nnmail-file-coding-system)
 	(file-name-coding-system nnmail-pathname-coding-system))
     (write-region start end filename append visit lockname)
-    (set-file-modes filename nnmail-default-file-modes)))
+    (gnus-set-file-modes filename nnmail-default-file-modes)))
 
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Best regards,

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