Kmail regex searches

Shlomi Fish shlomif at shlomifish.org
Thu Apr 27 18:56:28 BST 2023


hi all,

On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:13:14 +0200
Henk van Velden <henk.vanvelden at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Do you have any indication (e.g. in the documentation of Kmail) that Kmail is 
> supporting regex in it's search field. That search is typically an end-users 
> feature and I doubt that anybody expects that end-users (like your grandma) 
> have any idea about regular expressions.
> 

actually, I do:
https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-cards-on-the-table-2019-2020/indiv-nodes/selling-for-stupider-ppl.xhtml

:]]

> On Thursday, 27 April 2023 10:53:46 CEST Colin Close wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I wonder if you can help me? I have been trying to clean up a large mail
> > collection which has mega quantities of spam. One search that I am trying
> > to perform is to search for percentages. The form [0-9][0-9]% does not seem
> > to work..the same construct in Thunderbird works fine. I have no
> > explanation for this other than maybe in Kmail some characters may need
> > escaping. Any help gratefully received.
> > 
> > Colin Close  
> 
> 



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