Axel --
...and then Axel Beckert said...
% David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote:
% > I have read the manual, particularly sections 4.1 and 4.2, but still
% > have a few questions about limiting and regular expressions.
%
% I guess, I know why...
%
% > I have found that I can "l funnies|neff" quite happily, but I cannot
% > "l ~h funnies|neff" 'cuz I get an error in the pattern.
%
% Didn't I say, I know why? :-)
%
% There is something missing in the documentation regarding regexps in
% use with patterns.
Aha! So I'm not so crazy or stupid :-)
%
% > I've tried many variants of parenthesizing and escaping, but nothing
% > seems to work. Can I really do that, as implied by the "~h EXPR" in
% > the manual, or not?
%
% Yes, you can. The solution is quite easy, but I also needed a few
...
% case it weould be:
%
% "~h 'EXPR'"
Ahhh... Thanks; that makes sense (particularly with the explanation
that I clipped out :-)
%
...
%
% > Can I search for a real expression in the subject line, or am I
% > limited to a simple string, as implied by "~s SUBJECT" in the manual?
%
% You can. e.g. I use
...
%
% > How would I make a case-sensitive search for an all lower-case string?
% > That is, I want to find funny and funnies but *not* Funny...
%
% This seems to be dependend on the mutt version because of the change
% from the buggy GNU rx libs to regex. I noticed once, that matching
% against headers, which contain e-mail-addresses was case-insensitive
% but matching against other headers was case-sensitive. But maybe that
% was just my fantasy... ;-)
Let's pretend that it's a patched 0.95.4i that looks like the
attachment below :-)
%
% HTH
Thanks again!
% Regards, Axel
% --
% Axel Beckert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~abe/
% Dept. of Computer Science, University of Saarland (Germany)
% Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab), Prof. Dr. W. Wahlster;
% WWW-Administrator IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl; Students Representative
:-D
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