* Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>, 2005-11-24 01:06:36 Thu: > On 2005-11-23 13:19:51 -0500, David Haguenauer wrote: > > Actually, "^", "all" and "." are special-cased and equivalent to > > "~A". So, yes, <limit>. should always show all messages. > > OK, I confirmed this with a test. But where is this written in the > manual? It should be in Section 4.2, but I can't see anything about > that. Use the Source, Luke! Indeed, this feature doesn't seem to be documented, which is more or less what started this whole thread. Excerpt of pattern.c from 1.5.10: ---- /* convert a simple search into a real request */ void mutt_check_simple (char *s, size_t len, const char *simple) { char tmp[LONG_STRING]; /* XXX - is ascii_strcasecmp() right here, or should we use locale's * equivalences? */ if (!strchr (s, '~')) /* yup, so spoof a real request */ { /* convert old tokens into the new format */ if (ascii_strcasecmp ("all", s) == 0 || !mutt_strcmp ("^", s) || !mutt_strcmp (".", s)) /* ~A is more efficient */ strfcpy (s, "~A", len); ---- (I wonder, by the way, whether there is a good reason why the style keeps switching between `!strcmp' and `strcmp == 0'.) -- David Haguenauer
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