On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 04:28:53PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 16:17:00 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > but mutt also processes backslashes when it is parsing the command line > > defining the expresion -- so you may need to quote the backslashes. > > (Here's the explaination of this topic from the mutt manual, near the > bottom of the "Pattern Modifier" section: > Special attention has to be payed when using regular expressions > inside of patterns. Specifically, Mutt's parser for these patterns > will strip one level of backslash (\), which is normally used for > quoting. If it is your intention to use a backslash in the regular > expression, you will need to use two backslashes instead (\\).
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