Re: gnus mail-splitting tweak

[Simon Josefsson]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> In Gnus, the `nnmail-split-fancy' variable can contain functions, which
> are called to provide more arbitrary matching capabilities.  They are
> evaluated in a buffer containing only the article headers.
>
> If you want to do splitting on the message contents as well, the
> documentation contains the following suggestion:
>
>    (defun split-on-body ()
>      (save-excursion
>        (set-buffer " *nnmail incoming*")
>        (goto-char (point-min))
>        (when (re-search-forward "Some.*string" nil t)
>          "string.group")))
>
> However, using " *nnmail incoming*" has several disadvantages --
> (1) it's a funny looking magic string, which feels like it could change
> in the future, and (2) it's not always the right buffer, e.g., when you
> respool articles.
>
> What do you think of the following change, which explicitly exports a
> variable dynamically bound to the appropriate buffer:

This should be implemented in 5.10, the variable is called
nnmail-article-buffer.

> BTW, is there a gnus-specific mailing-list this sort of thing should be
> sent to?

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