Štěpán Němec <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Nothing, I think :-). I personally don't use fancy split- >>>> ting, but a deeper look at (at least Gnus 5.13's) code seems >>>> to locate the culprit in Emacs' *backward* regular expres- >>>> sion "non-greedity": Position point at the end of >>>> "bugzilla.gdm", C-u C-r "\w+" - et voilà, only one character >>>> is matched.
>>> That's not "non-greedity", that's brokenness IMO. Reported as GNU Emacs >>> bug #9681. >> As your opinion doesn't seem to be shared by the Emacs de- >> velopers, I'd suggest filing a bug for Gnus (as well :-)). > Be my guest. (I'm not interested in the Gnus problem in particular, as I > don't use splitting.) I do, but not the fancy variant. > Also, I don't think "doesn't seem to be shared" is a fair description. > I think most of them acknowledge the problem, but don't consider it > important enough to invest the (apparently rather big) amount of effort > necessary to fix it. > The brokenness is hardly deniable. Don't get me wrong, fundamentally I'm with you on that it constitutes what in MySQL would be called a "gotcha" - some- thing totally unexpected, yet somewhere documented. But I disagree with you to consider this a *bug*, as it *is* documented and it is logistically impossible to change Emacs' behaviour in this regard without assessing whether this breaks potentially quazillions lines of code. And I don't think that the developers consider it a bug either. Tim _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
