Re: [Pan-users] Select Headers with RE in the Subject/Author Entryfield?

[Heinz Mezera]

Hello Duncan,

Am Freitag, den 12.06.2015, 08:51 +0000 schrieb Duncan:
> Heinz Mezera posted on Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:38:23 +0200 as excerpted:
> 
> <..>
> > Am Montag, den 08.06.2015, 11:31 +0000 schrieb Duncan:
> >> Heinz Mezera posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:16:22 +0200 as excerpted:
> >> 
> >> ><...>
> OK, NOW we're on track! =:^)
> 
> This is exactly where that bit about toggling to something else /should/ 
> come in, now that you know /where/ to toggle (the search type menu).
> 
> Apparently, the regex search function gets "stuck" while you're typing, 
> and while it's stuck, nothing shows up, even when the regex then becomes 
> valid and something should show up.
> 
> So either start with something other than regex, and toggle it to regex 
> once you're ready to actually search, or start with regex, and when 
> you're done, if it's not showing anything, toggle it to something else, 
> and then back to regex.
> 
> That should unstick the regex and get the results you expect.  At least 
> it did so for me.  (Which is what I was trying to explain all along, 
> except I'd lost you way before, as you didn't know about the search type 
> toggle at all yet and thus weren't getting regex searches at all, yet.)
> 

sometimes a single toggle and once in a while more than one toggle
achieved the expected result.

Any idea why it get's stuck?

Many thanks for your help and patience!

kr Heinz