# [PATCH] send-email: fix mutt regex for grouped aliases

6 messages from 2009-09-30 to 2009-10-01. Participants: Felipe Contreras, Jeff King, Eric Wong.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21094

## Felipe Contreras, 2009-09-30 00:08

Subject: [PATCH] send-email: fix mutt regex for grouped aliases
Message-ID: <1254269323-16600-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1254269323-16600-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras%40gmail.com

```
For example:
alias -group friends foo Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
---
 git-send-email.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 0700d80..ec43a5e 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ my %aliases;
 my %parse_alias = (
 	# multiline formats can be supported in the future
 	mutt => sub { my $fh = shift; while (<$fh>) {
-		if (/^\s*alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
+		if (/^\s*alias\s+(?:-group\s+\S+\s+)?(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
 			my ($alias, $addr) = ($1, $2);
 			$addr =~ s/#.*$//; # mutt allows # comments
 			 # commas delimit multiple addresses
-- 
1.6.5.rc2.1.gec34

```

## Jeff King, 2009-09-30 11:28

Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: fix mutt regex for grouped aliases
Message-ID: <20090930112833.GA4984@sigio.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090930112833.GA4984%40sigio.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <1254269323-16600-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

```
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:08:43AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> For example:
> alias -group friends foo Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>

Hmm. If I am reading the mutt docs correctly, is it also legal to have:

  alias -group group1 -group group2 foo Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>

?

Which would need just:

> -		if (/^\s*alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
> +		if (/^\s*alias\s+(?:-group\s+\S+\s+)?(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {

   (?:-group\s+\S+\s+)*

I think.

-Peff

```

## Felipe Contreras, 2009-09-30 14:49

Subject: [PATCH v2] send-email: fix mutt regex for grouped aliases
Message-ID: <1254322176-4561-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1254322176-4561-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20090930112833.GA4984@sigio.peff.net>

```
For example:
alias -group friends foo Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>

Comments by Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
---
 git-send-email.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 0700d80..93b7ed2 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ my %aliases;
 my %parse_alias = (
 	# multiline formats can be supported in the future
 	mutt => sub { my $fh = shift; while (<$fh>) {
-		if (/^\s*alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
+		if (/^\s*alias\s+(?:-group\s+\S+\s+)*(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
 			my ($alias, $addr) = ($1, $2);
 			$addr =~ s/#.*$//; # mutt allows # comments
 			 # commas delimit multiple addresses
-- 
1.6.5.rc2.1.g9071

```

## Felipe Contreras, 2009-09-30 14:50

Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: fix mutt regex for grouped aliases
Message-ID: <94a0d4530909300750y4ea5225by3acb72010c6545fb@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/94a0d4530909300750y4ea5225by3acb72010c6545fb%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20090930112833.GA4984@sigio.peff.net>

```
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:08:43AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> For example:
>> alias -group friends foo Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>
>
> Hmm. If I am reading the mutt docs correctly, is it also legal to have:
>
>  alias -group group1 -group group2 foo Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>
>
> ?
>
> Which would need just:
>
>> -             if (/^\s*alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
>> +             if (/^\s*alias\s+(?:-group\s+\S+\s+)?(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
>
>   (?:-group\s+\S+\s+)*
>
> I think.

Yeap, that is correct. Resent.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

```

## Eric Wong, 2009-09-30 20:55

Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: fix mutt regex for grouped aliases
Message-ID: <20090930205501.GA30910@dcvr.yhbt.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090930205501.GA30910%40dcvr.yhbt.net
In-Reply-To: <1254322176-4561-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

```
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> For example:
> alias -group friends foo Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>
> 
> Comments by Jeff King.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

Interesting, I didn't know about this feature in mutt before.

Acked(-and-tested)-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>

> ---
>  git-send-email.perl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 0700d80..93b7ed2 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ my %aliases;
>  my %parse_alias = (
>  	# multiline formats can be supported in the future
>  	mutt => sub { my $fh = shift; while (<$fh>) {
> -		if (/^\s*alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
> +		if (/^\s*alias\s+(?:-group\s+\S+\s+)*(\S+)\s+(.*)$/) {
>  			my ($alias, $addr) = ($1, $2);
>  			$addr =~ s/#.*$//; # mutt allows # comments
>  			 # commas delimit multiple addresses
> -- 

```

## Jeff King, 2009-10-01 00:22

Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: fix mutt regex for grouped aliases
Message-ID: <20091001002259.GB27967@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20091001002259.GB27967%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <20090930205501.GA30910@dcvr.yhbt.net>

```
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 01:55:01PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote:

> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For example:
> > alias -group friends foo Foo Bar <foo@bar.com>
> > 
> > Comments by Jeff King.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> 
> Interesting, I didn't know about this feature in mutt before.
> 
> Acked(-and-tested)-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>

Nor did I, which is why I was reading the docs. :) The v2 patch looks
good to me, as well.

-Peff

```
