Re: help with regexps and limiting

1999-03-18 Thread Erik Jacobsen
I always been a little bugged by the case treatment, but I think I'm the only one :). Since I've lived and breathed grep/egrep, I can't untrain myself to think that the search string "(abc|def):" will match abc: or Abc: or DEF: and so forth. If not this, I guess my next choice would be the behav

Re: help with regexps and limiting

1999-03-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi; David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote: > % I suggest therefore the following: Use "X?funny" as regexp. There is > % one upper case letter in and it matches all messages containing > % "funny" and no others... It worked fine with my 2 versions of mutt. > > Sounds great. Um, how does it work? I see

Re: help with regexps and limiting

1999-03-18 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Axel -- ...and then Axel Beckert said... % Hi; % % David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote: % > % > How would I make a case-sensitive search for an all lower-case string? % % Just tested it with mutt 0.95i (with rx) and mutt 0.95.4i (with regex) % regarding the subject line. Both use a rule, which worked

Re: help with regexps and limiting

1999-03-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi; David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote: > % > How would I make a case-sensitive search for an all lower-case string? > % > That is, I want to find funny and funnies but *not* Funny... > % This seems to be dependend on the mutt version because of the change > % from the buggy GNU rx libs to regex. > >

Re: DOC-BUG: Re: help with regexps and limiting

1999-03-18 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Axel -- ...and then Axel Beckert said... % David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote: % > I have read the manual, particularly sections 4.1 and 4.2, but still % > have a few questions about limiting and regular expressions. % % I guess, I know why... % % > I have found that I can "l funnies|neff" quite hap

Re: help with regexps and limiting

1999-03-18 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Axel -- ...and then Axel Beckert said... % David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote: % > Silly me; there was one obvious one that I forgot. How do I *exclude* % > a pattern or expression from the search, such as % > % > l !neff % > l !(neff|Funnies|funny) % > % > or such? % % Hmm, don't understa

Re: help with regexps and limiting

1999-03-17 Thread Axel Beckert
David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote: > Silly me; there was one obvious one that I forgot. How do I *exclude* > a pattern or expression from the search, such as > > l !neff > l !(neff|Funnies|funny) > > or such? Hmm, don't understand your example. Does it mean something like "~l

DOC-BUG: Re: help with regexps and limiting

1999-03-17 Thread Axel Beckert
David Thorburn-Gundlach wrote: > I have read the manual, particularly sections 4.1 and 4.2, but still > have a few questions about limiting and regular expressions. I guess, I know why... > I have found that I can "l funnies|neff" quite happily, but I cannot > "l ~h funnies|neff" 'cuz I get an

Re: help with regexps and limiting

1999-03-17 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Hi, folks -- Silly me; there was one obvious one that I forgot. How do I *exclude* a pattern or expression from the search, such as l !neff l !(neff|Funnies|funny) or such? Thanks again :-) :-D -- David Thorburn-Gundlach * It's easier to fight for one's principles