Re: Mc Digest, Vol 62, Issue 1

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

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.

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> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:49:34 +0000
> From: Reynir Stefansson <reynirhs isl is>
> Subject: Re: mc v 4.5.55 shows strange bug
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> Chris Glur wrote:
> > It just so happens that I generate/save a lot like:-
> > comp.lang.functional.533
> > which semms ok.
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> > Decoding the 'regex-decoding' in the mc 'script'
> > is hard work, for me.
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> After weeks of trying to bribe myself to do so, I finally sat down and
> took a look at the regex for man pages.
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> 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'.
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> Regex is a write-only languish.
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> Reynir H. Stef?nsson (reynirhs mi is)
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