Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 06:06:21PM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that... > Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes: > > > Well, I have to say that from the GECOS fields I saw, none use that > > format, but a lot of them used the realname,phone,something,phone,... > > format. > > > Opinions? > > If the real world GECOS were either only plain and > name,room,blah,... format as you say and assume I think a > heuristics like you suggested would be better than the > current heuristics of assuming everything is a name, but I > haven't seen what "angry mob" actually has so cannot judge. It uses the name,room,blah,... format. > What do popular MUAs do to come up with the real-name fields? > Don't they face the same problem, trying to using GECOS? mutt: { "gecos_mask", DT_RX, R_NONE, UL &GecosMask, UL "^[^,]*" }, A regular expression used by mutt to parse the GECOS field of a password entry when expanding the alias. By default the regular expression is set to "^[^,]*" which will return the string up to the first "," encountered. If the GECOS field contains a string like "lastname, firstname" then you should set the gecos_mask=".*". -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Sep 20 02:18:37 2005
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