On 25 December 2005 at 11:02, "Mike O'Dell" <mo(_at_)ccr(_dot_)org> wrote:
Norman Shapiro wrote:
Although pick matches a lower case letter in the pattern insensitively,
upper case letters in the pattern match only upper case letters.
i never knew this. it's an amusing hack which makes lotsa sense,
assuming you know about it (grin).
It's great for searching if you know that the subject or body has
a word or acronym with some upper-case. But it's a pain when you
forget this semi-case-sensitive behavior and a search fails.
One of the suggestions for mh-format was that we add -script to
specify a different scripting language than the default. Maybe
we should think about adding a switch like -regexp or something
to pick and friends that specifies regular expressions? Even if
we don't want case sensitivity, I can sure think of cases where
full regexp handling -- even with greedy and non-greedy stars
and more, like Perl -- would be handy. Right now I resort to
writing a Perl or other script to do some searches that plain
shell-type wildcards can't do. (I haven't checked the code.
This might be hard to implement But hey, this is a wishlist. :)
Jerry
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