Quoth Kai Henningsen on Mon, Mar 27, 2000:
[regexp] > Well, so it does match the longest for cases that correspond to
> Exim's suffix handling, but maybe not in other cases :-)
Maybe the solution is to rewrite '-* : .*' suffix match as the
regexp '^[-.].*$'. But it will require changing the variable
from string-list to magic-string-list-parsed-and-rewritten-as-regexp.
Which is ugly. Making it a plain regexp will be an incompatible
change. Making it a regexp only if it starts with ^ is not great
either.
But in general, I agree that it would be nice if such suffices
matched the leftmost suffix, just as a regexp would do.
See you in Cambridge,
Vadik.
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