Re: problem with fancy-split's ! operator; bug?

[Colin Rafferty <colin.rafferty@msdw.com>]

Toby Speight writes:

>>> Colin Rafferty <URL:mailto:colin@xemacs.org>
0> In article <vgvsnzanwqi.fsf@ms.com>,
0> > wrote:

>>> However, here is the code:
>>> 
>>> ;; Builtin ! operation.
>>> ((eq (car split) '!)
>>>  (funcall (cadr split) (nnmail-split-it (caddr split))))
>>> 
>>> It should be this (to match `:'):
>>> 
>>> ;; Builtin ! operation.
>>> ((eq (car split) '!)
>>>  (nnmail-split-it (save-excursion (funcall (cadr split) (nnmail-split-it (caddr split))))))
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure that Lars should change the code to match documentation,
>>> since there may be many people out there who depend on this.

> Can you give an example of something that works with the former code,
> that behaves differently in the latter?

Just about anything.  Since the former code expects a list of groups
in which to put the mail, and the latter code expects a split to
parse, pretty much anything will owrk differently.

For example, if I had a .gnus that looked like this:

(defun test-split (dummy)
  '("one "two"))

(setq nnmail-split-fancy '(! test-split "dummy"))

Then in the former, the resulting split would be ("one" "two"), but in
the latter, the resulting split would be ("one").

-- 
Colin