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Petersen Jens-Ulrik (NRC/Tokyo) <jens-ulrik.petersen@nokia.com> writes:

  > 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.

Since it is so easy to include ".*" in the regexes where you don't
want word matching, I'm somewhat reluctant to agree to this.

How many of your split rules actually need ".*"?

The documentation explicitly mentions ".*", btw.

kai
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