Re: M-x gnus-filter-mail-at-warp-10 (was: Re: Pre-Processed maiil splitting under Gnus?)

[Asymptotically Approaching Relaxation <feoh@cosmic.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:

> Asymptotically Approaching Relaxation <feoh@cosmic.com> writes:
> 
>   > (setq nnmail-split-methods
>   > 	'(("mail.imagine" ".*owner-imagine@MAELSTROM\.STJOHNS\.EDU")
>   > 	("mail.mesa" "Return-Path:.*mesa.*.BR.*")
>   > 	("mail.kaffe" "Sender:.*kaffe@w3\.org")
>   > 	("mail.0xdeadbeef" ".*0xdeadbeef@substance\.abuse\.blackdown\.org")
>   > 	("mail.0xdeadbeef" "To:.*0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org")
>   > 	("mail.linux-kernel" "linux-kernel@vger\.rutgers\.edu")
>   > 	("mail.linux-smp" "linux-smp@vger\.rutgers\.edu")
>   > 	("mail.linux-net" "linux-net@vger\.rutgers\.edu")
>   > 	("mail.linux-gcc" "linux-gcc@vger\.rutgers\.edu")
>   > 	("mail.linux-svgalib" "linux-svgalib@vger\.rutgers\.edu")
>   > 	("mail.linux-tape" "linux-tape@vger\.rutgers\.edu")
>   > 	("mail.linux-scsi" "linux-scsi@vger\.rutgers\.edu")
> 
> I'm sure that these can be made faster by always using the header name
> (a number of these don't have headers), and by prefixing the header
> name with "^" (which means at beginning of line).
> 
> To be specific: the "mail.kaffe" regex could be
> "^Sender:.*kaffe@w3.org".
> 
> Also, note that the Lisp reader expands "\." to "." so "foo\.bar" and
> "foo.bar" are the same.  If you want to match a dot, use "\\.".
> 
> kai

I did that in the New: section, dunno if you caught that :)

Thanks for pointing out the thing about \. versus \\. though.

Clearly I need to go bash my head against the emacs-isms I'm not
getting.

Oh for a single regexp standard :)

I say we declare "Perl" and be done with it. <duck>

-Chris
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