error for regex tag pattern "*"
Hey folks, I have a persistent annoyance with mutt
because if I shift-t and try to use a pattern to
tag things, and then use * as the pattern, mutt
will consistently dump core.
Now I realize that the correct way to do what I want
is probably a pattern more like .* . I've read
up on Jeffrey Friedl, and I'm a smart monkey.
Yet being a very highly trained primate has not stopped
mutt from dumping on me, for ever so much I may know that
this is not what I should do, I by accident do it anyway,
and mutt is not idiot-proofed against my idiocy. This is
not a matter of useability but of robustness.
sysV debug didn't seem to like the core that mutt dumped,
but I'm not a trained monkey when it comes to debug anyway.
I will see if the same thing happens on a more modern system
as I know that Unixware is not what we'd call cutting edge.
info follows:
Script started on Thu Nov 27 11:30:48 2003
$ uname -a
UNIX_SV photobooks 4.2MP 2.1.3 i386 x86at
$ ls
$ ls c*
core.23990 core.2454
$ gdb core.23*
UX:ksh: ERROR: gdb: not found
$ db core.23*
UX:ksh: ERROR: db: not found
$ man db
UX:man: ERROR: No manual entry for db.
$debug core.23990
Warning: No debugging information in core.23990
UX:sh (sh): ERROR: ./core.23990: Cannot execute
Error: Create failed: all resulting processes killed
debug> quit
$ exit
script done on Thu Nov 27 11:32:22 2003
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