http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5442
Summary: Provide line continuation facility for rules
Product: Spamassassin
Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
Platform: Other
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P3
Component: Rules
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some obfuscation rules can be VERY long, and as a result difficult to both read
and maintain when they aren't generated automatically. Some other rules can
also get rather long.
Thus, a simple line continuation facility for rules is suggested. I believe
the suggested format is simple enough that it should be quite trivial to
recognize and handle in parsing, and trivial to glue the rules back together
when generating the compiled rules.
Allow line continuation with the normal backslash-newline technique. The
following line could begin with any amount of whitespace, and the rule
continuation text would be the first non-whitespace on the line. This second
line could also be continued in the same manner, etc. The rule would end with
a line not containing line continuation.
You could limit this continuation to only inside the regex delimiters, but it
would be simpler and probably safer to just allow it anywhere in a rule line.
The various pieces would simply be glued back together by eliminating the line
continuation characters and any associated whitespace. (Thus you could not
break a rule just before whitespace in the regex, but you could perhaps break
it *after* whitespace in the regex if you wanted to allow that.)
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