Re: [Evolution] Feature request

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:06, Lars Weissflog wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> sorry if I jump in here to ask something that has been an issue
> elsewhere but was not answered by now. As you are talking about the
> filters in Evo, my problem is sort of related: I tried to find useful
> documentation on the "expression" and "regexp" fields available in the
> filters dialog but could not find any. 

I'm not sure what you want to know about regex, it is documented all
over the web and/or `man 7 regex` should provide you with all the info
you could ever want to know.

as far as 'expression', it is for s-expressions that use the
evo-internal filter syntax. this is not documented anywhere but the
source code (er, well, documented as in you can see what the callbacks
do).

> 
> >From Jeffrey's answer I understand he is somewhat deeper involved in the
> evo development. Jeff, can you give me a hint where to find docs on
> those expression / regexp options? Are they usable by now or just a
> "placeholder" for a feature yet to come?

they are usable now.

> 
> Regards
> Lars
> 
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:05, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > I think drag&drop is something we've talked about adding at one point.
> > pretty sure that is in bugzilla already.
> > 
> 
> 
> > the search feature in the filter-list dialog is new tho, and might be
> > useful. another idea that might be nice is some sort of grouping, such
> > that you can create a tree of filters:
> 
> > + GNOME mailing Lists
> >   - desktop-devel
> >   - foundation
> >   - gnumeric
> > 
> > this way you can collapse the toplevel and thus allow faster finding of
> > rules.
> > 
> > anyways, this is all stuff that anna (our ui person) needs to sign off
> > on.
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:12, Francisco J. Fernandez wrote:
> > > I have set a lot of filters to distribute all the e-mail I usually
> > > receive. Sometimes I try to modify a filter rule, but it is difficult to
> > > search among all them one by one. I think it should be a great
> > > improvement to add a search field to the rules dialog.
> > > 
> > > Another problem is that sometimes I create a new rule and if I want to
> > > displace it to the top, I have to click multiple times in the Up button.
> > > It would be more easy to click on the rule and drag it on top of the
> > > list to rearrange them.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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