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Re: RMAIL line count problem
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: RMAIL line count problem |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:06:03 +0200 (IST) |
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> (format (cond
> ((<= lines 9) " [%d]")
> ((<= lines 99) " [%d]")
> ((<= lines 999) " [%3d]")
> (t "[%d]"))
> lines))))
>
> When the number of lines is more than 999 there is not a space before
> the line count following the to/from name. This stops font-lock
> regexps from finding the line count (since there may be '[' characters
> in the name).
Thanks, this is already fixed in the development sources.
> The fix is trivial, use " [%d]" for this case and let it shift right
> by one character.
I think this is the wrong way to fix this, since many rmail-related
features expect 4 characters to be allocated to the message id, and will
break if this assumption is false.