Re: [Pan-users] Select Headers with RE in the Subject/Author Entryfield?

[Duncan]

Heinz Mezera posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:11:57 +0200 as excerpted:

> Sorry, wrong assumption. I've always tried to use a regex in the
> search-field without changing it's "meaning". I now know this could not
> work.

So, umm... in that case, what did you think I meant when I said toggle 
the search type if it seems to get stuck?  If you weren't aware of the 
search types menu, what were you trying to do at that point in the 
instructions, instead?

This isn't an idle question.  I spend quite a bit of time on various 
mailing lists giving instructions, and obviously, try to write them to be 
understood.  I obviously skipped a critical step here, click the dropdown 
and choose regex, so I know to include that next time, but I haven't the 
foggiest what you were doing with the toggle instruction if it wasn't 
that.  Maybe you were simply skipping that instruction as it made no 
sense to you at that point?  Or maybe you were doing something else, I 
have no idea what.  If I can better envision what people are thinking 
when reading my instructions, even when I'm not clear, perhaps I can make 
them clearer, the next time. =:^)

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