Re: (Flaw in) tab completion of email addresses in mail buffer

[Andy Sawyer]

In article <m3he5uoumo.fsf@crayt3e.stanford.edu>,
 on 10 Jul 2003 15:59:59 -0700,
 Kaustuv <kaustuv@stanford.edu> wrote:

> BTW is there no genralization of looking-at function which looks at more
> than one regexp so effectively it is doing:
>  (or (or (looking-at "^To:") (looking-at "^CC:")) (looking-at
>  "^BCC:"))

Well, you could write:

 (or (looking-at "^To:") (looking-at "^CC:") (looking-at "^BCC:"))

which is will give the same result, but with less wear on those vital
paren keys :). Even better, IMHO, though would be:

 (looking-at "^^\\(To\\|B?CC\\):")

Regards,
 '(andys)
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