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[Nmh-workers] pick --'.*'.

2017-11-30 08:57:28
Hi,

I was grumbling to myself, making a change from the list, about the
broken design of the regexp arguments to `pick -subject', etc., and
making notes about how they could be improved when I realised that its
`--othercomponent regexp', e.g. `pick --list-id nmh' actually takes a
regexp as the option name.  I suspect this is unintentional.

The option is the first `%s', without its `--' prefix, and the following
parameter is the second in the resulting regexp.

    "^%s[ \t]*:.*%s"

So for any of the List-* headers, regardless of whether anything is
after the colon, it's

    pick --'list-[^:][^:]*' '$'

Unfortunately, the `:' is hard-coded; that's part of the above grumbling.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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