On 25 December 2005 at 11:02, "Mike O'Dell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norman Shapiro wrote: > > Although pick matches a lower case letter in the pattern insensitively, > > upper case letters in the pattern match only upper case letters. > > i never knew this. it's an amusing hack which makes lotsa sense, > assuming you know about it (grin).
It's great for searching if you know that the subject or body has a word or acronym with some upper-case. But it's a pain when you forget this semi-case-sensitive behavior and a search fails. One of the suggestions for mh-format was that we add -script to specify a different scripting language than the default. Maybe we should think about adding a switch like -regexp or something to pick and friends that specifies regular expressions? Even if we don't want case sensitivity, I can sure think of cases where full regexp handling -- even with greedy and non-greedy stars and more, like Perl -- would be handy. Right now I resort to writing a Perl or other script to do some searches that plain shell-type wildcards can't do. (I haven't checked the code. This might be hard to implement But hey, this is a wishlist. :) Jerry _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
