From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Escaping carets?
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 03:30:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lls5rbgp.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8765jbo37w.fsf@lucien.dreaming
bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström) writes:
> I want something like this in my gnus-message-archive-group. I seem to
> get something wrong concerning the caret in regexps however, since it
> doesn't match my nnfolders as long as I include it. If I just use
> "nnfolder:" instead it works, but it's not pretty. How do I escape that
> caret so that it works?
You shouldn't escape the caret -- I assume that your groups don't
actually include a literal caret.
What does string-match return when you insert the _full_ name of one
of your nnfolder groups, e.g.
(string-match "^nnfolder:" "nnfolder:foo.bar")
> (if (string-match "^nnfolder:" group)
> group
> "outgoing")
You need a pair of parens wrapped around that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-01 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-29 18:32 Escaping carets? Björn Lindström
2003-10-01 1:30 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-10-01 12:14 ` Björn Lindström
2003-10-01 23:51 ` Jesper Harder
2003-10-02 0:06 ` Björn Lindström
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