#3144: Parent and child match pattern modifier
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Reporter: jlh | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: mutt | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by kevin8t8):
I'm attaching a (very quickly thrown together) patch to demonstrate a
proposal. It has no documentation and only brief testing. I'll flush it
out if this sounds reasonable.
This version of the patch changes the syntax to:
{{{
~<(PATTERN)
~>(PATTERN)
}}}
for parent and children pattern matching, respectively.
So the "<" and ">" are no longer pattern modifiers but part of an actual
pattern operator, and the parenthesis are required.
It uses the same parsing as "~()", which means it has a proper
pattern->child to hold the contained pattern. This means a "!" in front
will apply to the operator, while one inside the parenthesis will apply to
the pattern.
It also has a pattern->op, so we can just add it inside the existing
mutt_pattern_exec() like the other operators.
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