imap split-fancy greedy match?

imap split-fancy greedy match?

[Emanuel Evans]

Hi! I'm trying to use fancy splitting with nnimap like so:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(nnimap-split-fancy
 (| (to "\\([-_[:alnum:]]+\\)@noreply\\.github\\.com" "github.\\1")
    ;; etc.
    ))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The problem: it seems to not match the whole "To" field, so (for
instance) "database_cleaner@noreply.github.com" gets filed into the
"github.cleaner" group instead of "github.database_cleaner". Weirdly, I
can workaround by having a more explicit regexp such as
"\\(\\w+[-_]\\w+\\)@noreply\\.github\\.com", but I don't want to do that
for every combination of groups and punctuation. (This doesn't seem to
be a problem with non-fancy splitting.) Is there any way to make sure
that fancy splitting matches the whole field "greedily"?

Re: imap split-fancy greedy match?

[Emanuel Evans]

Terrific, I'll try that. Thanks!

Re: imap split-fancy greedy match?

[Teemu Likonen]

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Emanuel Evans [2016-02-07 10:37:10-08] wrote:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> If I remember correctly, the fancy splitting is word-based, sort of
>> -- it wraps the things in \b or something...
>
> Is there any way to customize this behavior?

There is: nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words.

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Re: imap split-fancy greedy match?

[Emanuel Evans]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> If I remember correctly, the fancy splitting is word-based, sort of --
> it wraps the things in \b or something...

Is there any way to customize this behavior? If not, I think I'll just
go back to non-fancy splitting (which works fine form my uses so far)...

Re: imap split-fancy greedy match?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Emanuel Evans <mail@emanuel.industries> writes:

> Hi! I'm trying to use fancy splitting with nnimap like so:
>
> (nnimap-split-fancy
>  (| (to "\\([-_[:alnum:]]+\\)@noreply\\.github\\.com" "github.\\1")
>     ;; etc.
>     ))
>
> The problem: it seems to not match the whole "To" field, so (for
> instance) "database_cleaner@noreply.github.com" gets filed into the
> "github.cleaner" group instead of "github.database_cleaner". Weirdly, I
> can workaround by having a more explicit regexp such as
> "\\(\\w+[-_]\\w+\\)@noreply\\.github\\.com", but I don't want to do that
> for every combination of groups and punctuation. (This doesn't seem to
> be a problem with non-fancy splitting.) Is there any way to make sure
> that fancy splitting matches the whole field "greedily"?

If I remember correctly, the fancy splitting is word-based, sort of --
it wraps the things in \b or something...

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