I see this is also listed as a bug in Ximian's bugzilla http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=36354 On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 00:57, Edward Muller wrote:
Does anyone have any examples of 'expressions'. I have need of them (i.e. VFOLDERS are next to useless for me until I understand for to create expressions) and having some more evolution specific documentation and some samples would be VERY VERY helpful. Thanks, On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 01:11, Thomas Frayne wrote:Periodically, users request a capability for boolean searches in Evolution. The response is usually: we won't implement it, because you can do the same thing with expressions. The next question is: Where is the syntax for expressions documented? And the answer is: Nowhere but in the source code. However, http://www.ximian.com/support/manuals/evolution_10/usage-mail-organize-vfolders.html states: Expression - For programmers only: match a message according to an expression you write in the Scheme language, used to define vFolders in Ximian Evolution I have seen documentation of the Scheme language: http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/r5rs_toc.html describes Scheme. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wilson/schintro/schintro_toc.html has a Scheme tutorial. It would be helpful to have a few examples of Scheme expressions which can be used in a vfolder definition, with a descriptions of what they find. Failing that, where are expressions implemented in the Evolution source? I think that requiring Gnome Desktop users to know programming in a little known language is not the way to attract users of Microsoft Windows to Linux. At least, regular expressions should be allowed. Far better would be to allow adding AND, OR, NOT after each criterion so that unsophisticated users can easily construct flexible searches. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution lists ximian com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
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