Re: [Bug-ed] Searching for multiple matches with \+ isn't working

[Bob Proulx]

Brian Zwahr wrote:
> g/o\+/

In passing I will say that the equivelent basic RE for this is:

  /oo*/

And to make a typical example use to clarify this matches one or more
digits.

  /[0-9][0-9]*/

> So 1.15 is officially released? The archives only show through
> Oct. 2018, and the last posts there are about 1.15-pre2, which I
> assume is/was not a final release. Related, the archive says it
> refreshes every 30 minutes, but I don't see any of today's
> conversation (nor anything since Oct 2018). Should the auto-refresh
> have caught and posted this conversation?

I see this message thread in the archives.  As the message says, there
is a cronjob that runs every half hour and threads in new messages.

> Unrelated side note: the mailing list rules state that only text
> emails (no HTML) should be used, so I've been doing that (forcing
> text format).

That rule for avoiding HTML email is generally true of all technical
mailing lists.  HTML email has many problems and issues.  Plain text
is always best!

> The replies I've been getting have been HTML emails. Is that rule no
> longer applicable? If so, that'll save me the trouble of making sure
> I'm sending text-only message, but also means that the rules should
> probably be updated.

Thank you very much for sending plain text emails.  Why not make that
the default? :-)

However the other emails I saw were multipart/alternative with both
plain and html parts.  You may have seen the text/html part but others
(myself!) saw the text/plain parts.  Worst case is an text/html only
message, goodness forbid.

Off the top of my head...

HTML often gets used because people want to set colors and fonts for
the reader.  But the recipient should have the choice of colors and
fonts not the sender.

HTML has not been as accessible for screen readers for vision impaired
users.  (I assume this has improved over the years.)

HTML is really inefficient for bandwidth.  It's a pig by comparison to
plain text.  On mailing lists with a lot of subscribers that can be
serious.  Often the gnu.org mailing lists keep the network bandwidth
(all donated btw) at 100% for hours at a time.  Also as mobile cell
data becomes more prevailent metered plans where the recipient pays
the data charge means expense for the recipient.

Email standards only require a plain text part.  Therefore a fully
standards compliant email client might display the raw html.

Some HTML producers generate really abhorent html.

HTML email often contains "web bugs" and other tracking mechanisms.

HTML has been used to propagate attacks.

Bob

P.S. Antonio, I twiddled the mailing list settings somewhat in
response to this.