Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.13.92 - "She said that MY DEAD CAT WASSTUPID."

[Charles Kerr]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:47:11PM -0000, Paul Hudson wrote:
> Charles Kerr wrote:
>>
>> At a guess, you're talking about escape sequences in the entry fields
>> in the "add a score" dialog.  You need to select "matches regular
>> expression" or "does not match regular expression", then the entry
>> fields will keep your exact string.
>>
>> All other match types ("starts with", "contains", etc) assume a
>> literal substring, so they're escaped before being placed in the
>> scorefile, whose format is regular expression strings.
> 
> Ah. OK. I didn't look carefully enough, being too used to the default in
> Xnews ("matches").
> 
> I do think that "matches" is the right default, though :)

No, I suspect more people understand "contains" and "begins with" than
understand "matches regular expression".

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cheers,
Charles