From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23549 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: `nnmail-split-fancy' regexp Date: 25 Jun 1999 16:52:26 +0900 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 1035161261 2624 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org 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 DAA08039 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 03:54:11 -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 CAB05934; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:53:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:54:01 -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 CAA26866 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:53:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from ns11.nokia.com (ns11.nokia.com [131.228.6.230]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA08004 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 03:52:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from samail01.nmp.nokia.com (samail01.nmp.nokia.com [131.228.240.6]) by ns11.nokia.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA15322; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:52:46 +0300 (EET DST) Original-Received: from tonfs01.europe.nokia.com (tonfs01.europe.nokia.com [172.24.106.50]) by samail01.nmp.nokia.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA10157; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:01:15 +0300 (EETDST) Original-Received: from toedar02.europe.nokia.com (toedar02.europe.nokia.com [172.24.108.54]) by tonfs01.europe.nokia.com with ESMTP (8.7.1/8.7.1) id QAA14091; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:52:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from jepeters@localhost) by toedar02.europe.nokia.com (8.7.1/8.8.6) id QAA01846; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:52:26 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Per Abrahamsen In-Reply-To: EXT Per Abrahamsen's message of "24 Jun 1999 20:26:38 +0200" Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070088 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.88) XEmacs/21.0(beta60) (Poitou60) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23549 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23549 Per Abrahamsen writes: > "Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo)" 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