Re: [PATCH] Better error reporting in Gnus splitting.

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 19 2006, Karl Fogel wrote:
>
>> Any objections if I commit this patch?
>
> I don't see a problem with it.  Anyone?
>
>> Without this patch, when splitting encounters an error (say, an
>> invalid regular expression) in the nnmail-split-fancy list, then the
>> user is simply told that there is an error, but is given no details
>> about the error's nature.  The mail gets split into the 'bogus' mail
>> group, and the user has no idea why.
>>
>> With this patch, the user is informed about the general nature of the
>> error and may then be able to track it down.  (The error report could
>> theoretically be even more informative than this, but I didn't want to
>> make a large change.)  
>
> Would you like to post this version too?

Oh, I don't have that version -- I just traced far enough in the code
to know that it's possible.  Unfortunately, I don't have time to write
it right now, hence this smaller patch (which is likely to be a subset
of the larger one anyway).

-Karl