Alright, this works as well ;) I have no idea what the regexp refer to
though and yours is considerably easier to understand..
The question still remains though, why does mutt freeze..
* Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000629 15:44]:
> On 2000-06-29 14:46:31 +0800, Wari Wahab wrote:
>
> > > color body brightyellow default " \([A-Z']{2,}[ ,]*\)+"
>
> As a general rule, try to avoid regular expressions which
> nest multiple instances of "+" and "*". They tend to take
> very long to apply.
>
> Note, BTW, that the grouping and the trailing + are not
> needed in this case (mutt does something which has the
> effect you intend to achieve with hthis), so you may wish
> to try this one instead:
>
> color body brightyellow default "[-A-Z'][-A-Z'][-A-Z']*[ ,]*"
>
> It should work considerably faster.
>
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