Re: regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Apr2012 12:24, m...@raf.org m...@raf.org wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | You need double backslashes because two things are happening. | [...snip...] | | the best computing advice i've ever had was: | Double the number of backslashes! | - John Mackin John Iron Bar Mackin? | he

Re: regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-03 Thread mutt
Cameron Simpson wrote: You need double backslashes because two things are happening. [...snip...] the best computing advice i've ever had was: Double the number of backslashes! - John Mackin he didn't even know what my problem was when he said it but he was right. if it doesn't fix your

Re: [SOLVED] Re: regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-03 Thread David Champion
* On 02 Apr 2012, steve wrote: \\(e|E)tch\\ does exactly was I was looking for. By way of explanation: the catch here is that because of mutt's parsing rules with quotations, this expression is scanned twice and needs to have the backslashes themselves escaped. You'll find this often when

Re: regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-03 Thread Will Fiveash
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 12:24:54PM +1000, m...@raf.org wrote: Cameron Simpson wrote: You need double backslashes because two things are happening. [...snip...] the best computing advice i've ever had was: Double the number of backslashes! - John Mackin he didn't even know what

regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-02 Thread steve
Hi, I'm trying to write a regexp in order to capture some words to put them in color. I have a line like this in my .muttrc: color body red default \etch\|((L|l)enny)|((S|s)queeze)|((S|s)arge)|((P|p)otato) I want to catch only etch, but not fetch nor fetchera (or whatever combination). So I

Re: regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-04-02, steve wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a regexp in order to capture some words to put them in color. I have a line like this in my .muttrc: color body red default \etch\|((L|l)enny)|((S|s)queeze)|((S|s)arge)|((P|p)otato) I want to catch only etch, but not fetch nor

Re: regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Ludwig
steve schrieb am 02.04.2012 um 22:01 (+0200): I'm trying to write a regexp in order to capture some words to put them in color. I have a line like this in my .muttrc: color body red default \etch\|((L|l)enny)|((S|s)queeze)|((S|s)arge)|((P|p)otato) I want to catch only etch, but not

Re: regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02Apr2012 16:16, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: | On 2012-04-02, steve wrote: | I'm trying to write a regexp in order to capture some words to put them | in color. I have a line like this in my .muttrc: | | color body red default

[SOLVED] Re: regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-02 Thread steve
Dear mutt users, Thanks for all of your replies. \\(e|E)tch\\ does exactly was I was looking for. Have a nice day, Steve