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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: GNU 18.23.2 -- mail-util.el
Message-ID: <1077@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: Sat, 25-Oct-86 09:51:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 25 09:51:33 1986
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Keywords: rfc882 comment fields -- nested ()s


Is there any reason why the change I made here won't work?  (I posted
it a while back but it hasn't been changed in any GNU distribution
I've seen... that makes me wonder.)  I think it takes care of the
problem...  (My changes marked with `!'.)

*** mail-utils.el	Fri Oct 24 20:02:32 1986
***************
*** 52,59
       (while (setq pos (string-match 
  			;; This doesn't hack rfc822 nested comments
  			;;  `(xyzzy (foo) whinge)' properly.  Big deal.
! ;;			"[ \t]*(\\([^)\"\\]\\|\\\\.\\|\\\\\n\\)*)"
! 		       "[ \t]*(\\([^)\"\\]\\|\\\\.\\|\\\\\n\\).*)";;this does
  			address))
         (setq address
  	     (mail-string-delete address