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On 01 Apr 2001, Nevin Kapur wrote:

> It looks to me like fancy splitting matches on word boundaries at
> the *end* of words,

Isn't there some special-casing when the regexp starts with ".*"?  I
think when Gnus sees this, it omits the leading \\< that it would
normally insert.

> i.e., the above regexp produces
> 
> ^\\(\\(subject\\):.*\\)\\(\\[.+\\] *$\\)\\>
> 
> in nnmail-fancy-split. I can't think of any way to match ']' (or for
> that matter any other character that is not a legal word boundary)
> at the end of the string with this restriction.
> 
> Perhaps someone with better regexp skills than me can help...

I think a similar trick should be done for the end of the regexp.
Hm...  Yes, look after line 1232 in nnmail.el, there you can see the
special case for splits beginning with ".*".  I think partial should
be renamed to partial-front and a similar partial-rear variable should
be introduced.

Opinions?

kai
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