GNU bug report logs - #53989
29.0.50; Gnus searches broken

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

Done: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: 53989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53989: 29.0.50; Gnus searches broken
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:45:25 -0800

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>> > I'll ask at the same time I post the patch.
>>
>> Thanks.  Meanwhile, I changed
>>
>> base=~/Mail/archive
>>
>> to
>>
>> base=~/Mail/archive/
>>
>> in my .mairixrc and rebuilt the database.  Now the matches have three
>> slashes, like in "/home/micha/Mail/archive///sent/995".
>
> I now tried with
>
> | mh=*
>
> instead of
>
> | mh=...
>
> and that gives me the correct number of slashes, and searching in Gnus
> finally works.
>
> Seems mairix is just not very smart when expanding file names.

Oh... hmm. I wonder if we should actually change the parsing then or
not? What do you think?
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