Package: vim Version: 1:7.1.291-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi,
I find that vim's detection of mbox (filetype "mail") files for syntax coloring, etc. doesn't work when they are generated by Mozilla Thunderbird, the reason being that in the From line preceding each message, Thunderbird apparently puts a "-" rather than an email address. Example header line in debian-private archive: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 01 09:36:16 2008 Example header line in my local mailbox generated by Icedove: From - Wed Jan 02 08:44:14 2008 The attached, very minor patch to /usr/share/vim/vim71/scripts.vim allows vim to also realize that Thunderbird's idiosyncratic headers signal a file in mbox format. Side note: This is not included in the patch, but also maybe "=~" on the line changed by the diff should be changed to "=~#" since to the best of my knowledge, the "From" is case-sensitive. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751
--- scripts.vim.orig 2008-04-09 14:08:05.000000000 -0700
+++ scripts.vim 2008-04-09 14:09:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
set ft=zsh
" ELM Mail files
- elseif s:line1 =~ '^From [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z_0-9\.=-]*\(@[^ ]*\)\= .*[12][09]\d\d$'
+ elseif s:line1 =~ '^From \([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z_0-9\.=-]*\(@[^ ]*\)\=\|-\) .*[12][09]\d\d$'
set ft=mail
" Mason
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