Re: RMAIL against Texinfo

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>]

> From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:51:31 +0100
> 
> This will still remove frumple-info and tex-info from the list of
> addresses.

So you are saying that using \` instead of \< would be better?  (I
used \< because I thought about addresses like
<info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, with the brackets intact.)

> Also, there is experience with nnmail-fancy-split in Gnus, which
> automatically surrounds regexes with \\< and \\>.  Users are supposed
> to say ".*foo.*" if they want to undo the effect of \\<...\\>.  But
> after some years it turned out that this didn't always work, and now
> there is additional code in the function supporting nnmail-split-fancy
> which checks for the regex starting with ".*"...  I forgot what
> exactly was the problem, though.

Well, do you see any reason that this would be relevant to the case
in point?  mail-utils.el doesn't surround regular expressions with \<
and \>, it only does that with usernames, which aren't regexps.

> I'm afraid that with a similar change for rmail-dont-reply-to-names,
> you might fall into similar traps.

Like what?

> And it doesn't even cover all cases.

Sure, but it does make the current situation better, doesn't it?