Re: `nnmail-split-fancy' regexp

["Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)" <jens-ulrik.petersen@nokia.com>]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

   > "Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)" <jens-ulrik.petersen@nokia.com> writes:
   > 
   > > I found the restriction that string VALUE regexp's should match to
   > > whole words too restrictive...
   > 
   > There are zillions of nnmail-split-fancy rules written using that
   > assumption, and many of them represent a huge work effort.  Mine has
   > approximately 300 rules.  

Ok, I take your point, and I suppose I suspected as much...

   > If you want the rules to be interpreted differently, invent a new
   > variable and a new split method for it.

Since it is such a small change, that sounds like overkill to me.

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.

Jens