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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mail-extract-address-components with "Ver Surname, Given"
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:21:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DjSxT-0003W6-4r@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8seo0$554$1@sea.gmane.org> (message from Kevin Rodgers on Thu,  16 Jun 2005 12:05:49 -0600)

This change fixes it.  What I am not sure is whether the 
criterion is now too general so that it would give bad results
in some other case.

*** mail-extr.el	10 Feb 2005 01:13:43 -0500	1.47
--- mail-extr.el	17 Jun 2005 20:03:46 -0400	
***************
*** 1594,1600 ****
  
  	   ;; Check for initial last name followed by comma
  	   ((and (eq ?, (following-char))
! 		 (eq word-count 1))
  	    (forward-char 1)
  	    (setq last-name-comma-flag t)
  	    (or (eq ?\  (following-char))
--- 1594,1605 ----
  
  	   ;; Check for initial last name followed by comma
  	   ((and (eq ?, (following-char))
! 		 (not last-name-comma-flag))
! 	    ;; This used to check for (eq word-count 1),
! 	    ;; but that failed for the case
! 	    ;; (mail-extract-address-components
! 	    ;;  "\"Ver Surname, Given\" <given.ver.surname@example.com>")
! 	    ;; However, not checking at all may make this too general.
  	    (forward-char 1)
  	    (setq last-name-comma-flag t)
  	    (or (eq ?\  (following-char))

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-18  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-16 18:05 mail-extract-address-components with "Ver Surname, Given" Kevin Rodgers
2005-06-16 18:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-06-18  2:21 ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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