Re: Regular express does _not_ work in nnmail-split-fancy

[Steven Woody]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>>>>>> In <87br4bsuvq.fsf@narke.yellow.line> Steven Woody wrote:
>
>> ,----[ Method B ]
>>| (setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy
>>|       nnmail-split-fancy
>>|      `(|
>>|        ...
>>|        (any "@lists\\." "gen.list")
>>|        "mail.misc"
>>|        ))
>> `----
>
>> Methd A works well. but not Method B -- all message will unexpected go to
>> "mail.misc" instead of "gen.list".  where did i make any wrong?
>
> Try:
>
> (setq nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words t)
>
> In the case where it is nil (by default), the regexp "@lists\\."
> is computed into "\\<@lists\\.\\>", which won't match any mail
> address since "." is not recognized as `word'.  The value t
> prevents it from being surrounded by "\\<...\\>".  Please note,
> changing the value of `nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words'
> might also affect other entries in `nnmail-split-fancy'.

thank you! it works thought i am not clear your explain.

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