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In article <1991Mar31.023112.23996@ee.rochester.edu> Mark Sirota <msirota@ee.rochester.edu> writes:
} Dan and Bart:
} 
} I have a wish list for the "pick" and "mark" commands.
} 
} (1) I've mentioned before that I'd like to be able to pick from both the To:
} 	header and Cc:  header in one swell foop.

Yeah.  Any suggestions on a syntax for specifying multiple search criteria
that wouldn't be even worse than that of find(1) ?

} (2) I'd like to be able to match exactly (optionally), not just match
} 	substrings.  Sometimes I still want to match substrings, though.

These are regular expressions, you know.  ^ matches beginning of line, $
matches end of line, etc.  Whatever your regex library supports.  NOT
file globbing patterns, for those readers who might confuse the two!

} (3) I'd like to be able to match against the local-part of an address.
} 	That is, I'd like "pick -t msirota" to match
} 	"msirota@ee.rochester.edu", but not match "user@msirota.com".

That's a tough one.

} I realize that (3) is probably pretty tough, but it's also pretty important.

Oh. :-)

} (4) I'd like more than five priorities.

Recompile with MAX_PRIORITY defined larger.  I believe it'll handle up to
10 priorities.  Although toolmode will still be able to twiddle only the
first five from the mark menu.

} How likely is it that my dreams might sometime come true?  (My dream of
} having tabs *not* expand to spaces with wrapcolumn set still hasn't come
} true...)

Dream #1 is the most likely, assuming we can think of a syntax.  I think
you can already do #2.  #3 might be very slow, because mush would have to
parse the address on every search; you might be better off trying to come
up with a regex for it (e.g., '!*msirota[@ ]', sort of).  How many
priorities would be enough?

The problem with tabs and spaces is with getting any arbitrary terminal
to backspace over a tab correctly ....
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Z-Code Software Corporation                             schaefer@cse.ogi.edu