Re: regexp and pattern limit

2012-04-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Apr2012 12:24, 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 didn't even

Re: SSL Failed: I/O error

2012-04-03 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 07:52:24PM -0700, Stephen Cott wrote: > As far as I can tell there is no way to tell mutt to tell openssl to > check the /etc/ssl/certs path for server certificates. Openssl itself > will not check this path by default. Gnutls does not have this problem > as there is a ssl_

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

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

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 y