* 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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