Re: Regexps in nnmail-split-fancy differ from nnmail-split-methods?

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <lzsm9rkj9d.fsf@toots.sol> Jean-Louis Leroy wrote:

> Hello,

> recently I switched to fancy mail splitting. Everything works fine as
> far as I can see, except where I split mail originating from mailing
> lists by looking for the list name between brackets in the subject, e.g.::

>               ("subject" "\\[Perl Jobs\\]" "perl.jobs")

> This regexp worked fine with non-fancy splitting. Removing the
> brackets makes the split match btw.

> Help anybody? TIA...

In the fancy mail splitting, "regexp" will be modified into
"\\<regexp\\>" by default.  You can alter the behavior by
setting the nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words variable to
t.  For details, see the Info manual:

M-x info RET d m Gnus RET m Fancy Mail Splitting RET C-s partial