Yes, regex is very important, because searching is important. That's why goog 'controls the world'.
Yet my most frustrating time at the box concerns regex. Thanks, == Chris Glur. It's good that the 2nd arm of the WinTel abusive monopoly has been hit too now. On 6/1/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Mc mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Mc digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: mc v 4.5.55 shows strange bug (Reynir Stefansson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:49:34 +0000 > From: Reynir Stefansson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: mc v 4.5.55 shows strange bug > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Chris Glur wrote: >> It just so happens that I generate/save a lot like:- >> comp.lang.functional.533 >> which semms ok. >> >> Decoding the 'regex-decoding' in the mc 'script' >> is hard work, for me. >> > > After weeks of trying to bribe myself to do so, I finally sat down and > took a look at the regex for man pages. > > As far as I can tell, foo.l, foo.n, foo.3, foo.3a and foo.3bar will all > be treated as man pages. Filenames like foo.3.1 and foo.313 will not be > so treated. Probably the simplest solution, assuming machine-generated > and -parsed filenames, is to change the names from 'newsgroup.nnn' to > something like 'newsgroup.1.nnn' or 'newsgroup.00nnn'. > > Regex is a write-only languish. > > Reynir H. Stef?nsson ([email protected]) > -- > Make love, make war, make cookies. Just not at the same time. > > (Old Amazon saying, "A Different Art" by Gregg Sharp) > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mc mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > > > End of Mc Digest, Vol 62, Issue 1 > ********************************* > _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
