From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19026: 24.4.50; rmail-summary-by-topic Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:41:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430199737 12150 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2015 05:42:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 05:42:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19026@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 28 07:42:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YmyHX-0004Re-Db for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 07:42:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmyHW-0002KA-Gh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:42:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39371) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmyHT-0002Il-7x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmyHS-0005Pv-DH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:52093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmyHS-0005Pr-9e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YmyHS-0005FA-3F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:42:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 05:42:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19026 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19026-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19026.143019971420142 (code B ref 19026); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 05:42:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19026) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Apr 2015 05:41:54 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41869 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YmyHJ-0005Eo-Do for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:56465 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YmyHH-0005Ef-C5 for 19026@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmyHE-0006UY-Ge; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:41:48 -0400 X-Spook: militia Panama UMTS Albania kilo class BRLO e-bomb nuclear X-Ran: Iw3F/)v{qjL!b`1pJ'|yzlnbM(yR,7qvqxKzv:QGJwW#^!Bmt$[fg8|9/k[J)lB^BWaP@b X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:44:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:102151 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > In rmail-summary-by-topic, if (rmail-simplify-subject) returns a > string with a comma, that is taken as a comma-separated list of > different things to search for. Thus, it finds messages whose > subject is just a part of this message's subject. I wrote a FIXME comment about this 5 years ago: ;; FIXME "a string of regexps separated by commas" makes no sense because: ;; i) it's pointless (you can just use \\|) ;; ii) it's broken (you can't specify a literal comma) ;; rmail-summary-by-topic and rmail-summary-by-senders have the same issue. I suggest just dumping this "separated by commas" idea. Ie, you would have to write "foo\\|bar" like in any other regexp.