On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:06, Lars Weissflog wrote: > Hi there, > > sorry if I jump in here to ask something that has been an issue > elsewhere but was not answered by now. As you are talking about the > filters in Evo, my problem is sort of related: I tried to find useful > documentation on the "expression" and "regexp" fields available in the > filters dialog but could not find any.
I'm not sure what you want to know about regex, it is documented all over the web and/or `man 7 regex` should provide you with all the info you could ever want to know. as far as 'expression', it is for s-expressions that use the evo-internal filter syntax. this is not documented anywhere but the source code (er, well, documented as in you can see what the callbacks do). > > >From Jeffrey's answer I understand he is somewhat deeper involved in the > evo development. Jeff, can you give me a hint where to find docs on > those expression / regexp options? Are they usable by now or just a > "placeholder" for a feature yet to come? they are usable now. > > Regards > Lars > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:05, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > I think drag&drop is something we've talked about adding at one point. > > pretty sure that is in bugzilla already. > > > > > > the search feature in the filter-list dialog is new tho, and might be > > useful. another idea that might be nice is some sort of grouping, such > > that you can create a tree of filters: > > > + GNOME mailing Lists > > - desktop-devel > > - foundation > > - gnumeric > > > > this way you can collapse the toplevel and thus allow faster finding of > > rules. > > > > anyways, this is all stuff that anna (our ui person) needs to sign off > > on. > > > > Jeff > > > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:12, Francisco J. Fernandez wrote: > > > I have set a lot of filters to distribute all the e-mail I usually > > > receive. Sometimes I try to modify a filter rule, but it is difficult to > > > search among all them one by one. I think it should be a great > > > improvement to add a search field to the rules dialog. > > > > > > Another problem is that sometimes I create a new rule and if I want to > > > displace it to the top, I have to click multiple times in the Up button. > > > It would be more easy to click on the rule and drag it on top of the > > > list to rearrange them. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
