Re: Gnus nnmail-split-fancy regexps can’t support backrefs inside themselves?

[tomas]

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 04:20:41PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> Indeed, they don't support backrefs, because Gnus takes the regexp you
> specify and embeds it into a larger regexp which also uses \(...\)
> grouping, so you'd have to offset your backrefs by the proper number of
> preceding \( in order for them to work right (and changes in Emacs/Gnus
> can change this offset, of course, to make things more interesting).

Oh, good catch. Perhaps using explicitly numbered groups \(?NUM:...\)
might help here...

Cheers
- -- tomás
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