Hi, * Dan Boger [05/31/02 14:34:37 CEST] wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:27:09PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > > I have a problem with a folder-hook. Say, I've got three > > folders IN.back1, IN.back2 and IN.test. If I want to take > > some action for all folders except IN.back1 I use:
> > folder-hook =IN\.[^b][^a][^c][^k][^1] ... > > The problem is that mutt doesn't apply it to IN.test. I > > guess that for IN.test it checks if the first 5 characters > > after IN. are not one of b,a,c,k,1 - but 'test' is only 4 > > long. I guess that's the reason why it fails in this special > > case while it works for all other folder names longer or > > equal to 5 characters after IN.. > sounds to me that it's doing exactly what you told it to... match any > folder that begins with an "IN.", followed by 5 chars that are not (in > order) "b" "a" "c" "k" "1" - and you're right - since "test" is only 4 > characters, it doesn't match the "not 1" section. Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. Actually, I was somehow missing the fact that it checks for an existing character while 'not 1' is true for just nothing - but it's not a character. [^1] thus is true if a) there's a character and b) that character is not 1. If you don't understand the way I thought... doesn't matter: You're right. > I think you might be better off making a general folder hook (that will > match back1 as well), then adding another folder hook (after? before?) > that will deal with the special case. It don't need even more lines in my setup. I think it should be not too difficult to write a pattern doing what I want - now that I'm aware of the small difference. Thanks anyways... Cheers, Rocco
