#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 kevin8t8):
The ticket was opened claiming a semantic change in the interpretation of
the caret. If that were the case, this would indeed be a backward-
incompatible change. (However since the 1.5 series is technically non-
stable, this would not have been the first such one.)
The caret was not ignored, but (during parsing of the muttrc) was expanded
to an undefined/empty value. Things in fact did not "work", as your
folder-hook would also match a folder "foo-buildd". Since this actually
happened to others, it seemed important enough to merit an error message,
pointing out the problem. So really, I think this was more of a "fixage"
change. :-)
I understand the frustration at having your previously fine muttrc
generate errors now, but longer term I think it's more important to have
the problem pointed out than having the hooks fire at mystifying times.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3788#comment:6>
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