From: Michael Elkins Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:43:29 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document escaping rules for regular expressions (#1351). X-Git-Tag: mutt-1-5-2-rel~41 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b679f1ab49c0cb229315e0da021de5d47fc42d12;p=mutt Document escaping rules for regular expressions (#1351). --- diff --git a/doc/manual.sgml.head b/doc/manual.sgml.head index 5256083e..9c5bd190 100644 --- a/doc/manual.sgml.head +++ b/doc/manual.sgml.head @@ -1738,7 +1738,12 @@ messages: Where EXPR, USER, ID, and SUBJECT are -. +. Special attention has to be +made when using regular expressions inside of patterns. Specifically, +Mutt's parser for these patterns will strip one level of backslash (\), +which is normally used for quoting. If it is your intention to use a +backslash in the regular expression, you will need to use two backslashes +instead (\\). *) The forms