On Jun 9, 2019, at 1:49 AM, Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Bakul, > >> So pick runs -search on header lines as well as the body a header >> specific option is only run against headers. > > pick(1): > > This means that the pattern specified for a -search will be found > everywhere in the message, including the header and the body, while the > other pattern matching requests are limited to the single specified > component. > >> And pick matches header line *after* line folding, as tested with >> Received: > > Pattern matching is performed on a per-line basis. Within the header > of the message, each component is treated as one long line, but in the > body, each line is separate. > >> Conclusion: the man page is not quite accurate! But that is probably >> ok. > > Based on the above extracts, it doesn't seem too bad. > Is there something in particular you think's missing?
No, it is quite accurate. Thanks for doing a better job of reading than me! -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
