Re: How to combine spam-split with Subject filtering.

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an triú lá déag de mí Eanair, scríobh Uwe Brauer: 

 > So does isearch-forward-regexp behaves differently from
 > putting this string in a function which uses a regexp search???

Yes; if you think about it, when you put a string in a function, you need
to do string escaping for characters like \ and ", whereas for
isearch-forward-regexp there’s no need for the string escaping, because no
string literal is involved. 

So typing M-C-s \[POSIBLE SPAM\] RET does the same regexp match as does M-:
(re-search-forward "\\[POSIBLE SPAM\\]" nil t) RET . Some variation on this
latter is better for building regexps you’re going to use in a program, in
my experience. 

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