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From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Tommy Kelly <tommy.kelly@verilab.com>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Error in (info "(gnus)Splitting Mail")
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:16:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrn73386.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d3p02fd2.fsf@verilab.com> (Tommy Kelly's message of "Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:39:53 -0600")

Tommy Kelly <tommy.kelly@verilab.com> writes:

> Thanks Štěpán. I think I'd figure that but what was confusing me was the
> fact that an unescaped dot was shown in examples for the non-fancy
> split method. For example, in info "6.3.3 Splitting Mail" you see an
> example of:
>
>      ("list.\\1" "From:.* \\(.*\\)-list@majordomo.com")
>
> So shouldn't the dot after "majordomo" be double escaped?

Yeah, that's obviously just an error in the documentation, but a mostly
harmless one, as "." matches the dot anyway...

Cc-ing the ding list.

  Štěpán

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-18  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5.1292548275.31723.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-17  9:38 ` nnimap-split-fancy Adam Sjøgren
2010-12-17 10:36   ` nnimap-split-fancy Richard Riley
2010-12-17 15:09   ` nnimap-split-fancy Tommy Kelly
2010-12-17 17:30     ` About toothpicks (was Re: nnimap-split-fancy) Štěpán Němec
2010-12-17 22:39       ` Tommy Kelly
2010-12-18  8:16         ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
     [not found]         ` <mailman.13.1292660334.28168.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-18 18:45           ` Error in (info "(gnus)Splitting Mail") Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-12-18 22:33             ` Tommy Kelly
2010-12-19 14:27               ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-19 15:24                 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-12-19 15:53                 ` Tommy Kelly
2010-12-27 15:07                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-27 16:34                     ` Steinar Bang
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.5.1293462475.24495.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-27 15:38                     ` Richard Riley
2010-12-28 13:21                       ` Tommy Kelly
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.0.1293542535.18545.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-28 15:48                         ` Richard Riley
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.6.1292772417.12385.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-19 15:55                   ` Richard Riley
2010-12-18 19:12     ` nnimap-split-fancy Eric S Fraga
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4.1292598585.3076.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-17 21:18     ` nnimap-split-fancy Adam Sjøgren

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