#3788: caret (^) changed from regex meaning to current mailbox
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Reporter: RicardoSignes | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: critical | Milestone:
Component: mutt | Version:
Resolution: invalid | Keywords:
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Comment (by RicardoSignes):
Fair enough, thanks. I had completely forgotten that 1.5 is a dev
release. It's been a long time since the last stable and the meaning of
that odd second number totally slipped my mind! This makes me even more
eager for 1.6 :)
Maybe you can help me with one last thing in fixing this once and for all,
because now that I have to fix this, I have two choices: I can just drop
the `^`, which will work as well as it did, but be wrong sometimes (which
I guess I never noticed before) or I can get things matching more
precisely. I'd like to do the latter, but I'm finding it impossible,
probably because of some stupid misunderstanding.
For example, I have a hook that used to look like this:
> `folder-hook ^dns my_hdr From: Hostmaster`
It's meant to work on the folder I change to with "=dns". If I wrap that
`^dns` in parens, it doesn't match. So I tried, instead, `=dns`. That
also failed. My `$folder` is `imaps://[email protected]/INBOX` so
I tried `imaps://[email protected]/INBOX.dns` and that worked.
Then I wondered whether I needed to supply that final dot myself, so I
tried `=.dns` but that also failed. (By failed, in all these cases, I
mean that the from address was not changed.)
I've had a quick look through the source, but I didn't see anything really
enlightening. Do you know what I'm missing?
Thanks for your time and patience.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3788#comment:7>
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