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From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
Subject: Re: nnmail-split-fancy usability problem
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 01:24:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoij3chrm9mw.fsf@folca.dd.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u1a9jf7q.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> The following patch changes the implicit ".*" to ".*?".  Okay to
> apply?

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From:  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: [patch] Greedy pattern in nnmail-split-it
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 19:51:41 +0200
Message-ID: <m3brx9n5ci.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>

Dmitry Astapov <adept@umc.com.ua> writes:

> Here greedy match is used to glue together regexp for FIELD and
> regexp for VALUE, and this greedy match eats too much. Basically, it
> prevents user from using non-greedy matches at the beginning of
> VALUE in the nnmail-split-fancy at all.
>
> I propose to change ":.*" to ":.*?"

Well, this can't be changed in the stable Gnus series, so could you
suggest this again once the next development series starts?

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-30 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-29 11:27 Florian Weimer
2003-06-29 13:33 ` Michael Cook
2003-06-29 13:37   ` Florian Weimer
2003-06-30 23:24 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]

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