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Re: nnimap-split-methods ?


From: David Masterson
Subject: Re: nnimap-split-methods ?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 19:08:06 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Jamie Beardslee <jdb@jamzattack.xyz> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:
>> (setq nnimap-split-methods
>>       '(
>>      ("mail.orgmode" "^\(To:\|Cc:\).*emacs-orgmode@gnu.org")
>>      ("mail.emacs" "^\(To:\|Cc:\).*help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org")
>>      ("mail.misc" "")
>>      )
>>       )
>
> The backslashes are being swallowed by Elisp's string syntax.  i.e. "\("
> means the same thing as "(", you need to escape the backslash "\\(".
>
> Try this:
>
> (setq nnimap-split-methods
>       '(("mail.orgmode" "^\\(To:\\|Cc:\\).*emacs-orgmode@gnu.org")
>       ("mail.emacs" "^\\(To:\\|Cc:\\).*help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org")
>       ("mail.misc" "")))
>

Ah!  That makes sense.  Thanks

-- 
David Masterson



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