Fairlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You bunch them all in one big regex. It looks slightly ugly but
> > fortunately it doesn't need to be human-parseable most of the time.
>
> I imagine it does look really confusing with lots of short things like
> iki.fi in it. :)
Well, if you do like many hackers, and try to make a "clever" regexp,
it's probably going to be hard to read. But there's no reason you can't
just make a "simple" regexp that does the same thing.
For instance, instead of this:
set alternates='^(fox|david|cretin)@(convex|hp).com)$"
I could just do this:
set
alternates='^([EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])$"
Which one is easier to read, depends on the width of your terminal, and
how much you enjoy parsing regular exprssions. :)
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