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27.1; Gnus inconsistent keys for scoring on body?

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>
Cc: 43502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43502: 27.1; Gnus inconsistent keys for scoring on body?
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:47:20 +0200

Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe> writes:

> This is inconsistent with the keys for other entry types:
>
>     I a s ...
>
>     Increase, score on author, substring
>
>     I a r ...
>
>     Increase, score on author, regexp
>
> This is also inconsistent with the manual (Gnus)Summary Score Commands,
> which documents s/r for substring/regexp and not z/p

Yeah, but the matches are different, so (as I seem to vaguely recall
from the 90s when this was written), different keys had to be used.

I've now documented that in the manual along with this:

> A side effect of this is that the shortcuts raise an error for body type
> entries:
>
>     I B should be equivalent to I b s(z?) t
>
> But it errors, likely because s is not defined for I b

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