Re: automatic MIME decoding in rmail

[Evil Boris]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I will make it handle delsp also.

Thanks. Today, however, having updated from CVS, I had very strange
things happen.  To make a long story short, I got caught by
loaddefs.el not regenerating properly (not sure if it was something I
did or the "cvs update" followed by "make" followed by "recompile"
followed by "make" is insufficient...; I was stuck with new version of
rmail.el, but old version of rmail-mime-charset-pattern---this broke
terribly, see below).  Once I fixed that, I see that

==========
rmail-mime-charset-pattern is a variable defined in `rmail.el'.
Its value is
"^content-type:[ ]*text/plain;\\(?:[    \n]*\\(format\\|delsp\\)=\"?[-a-z0-9]+\\
"?;\\)*[         \n]*charset=\"?\\([^    \n\";]+\\)\"?"
==========

Which I thought was good.  But then I see
===========
revision 1.425
date: 2006-04-19 09:55:40 +0000;  author: rfrancoise;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
(rmail-convert-to-babyl-format): Use second group from
`rmail-mime-charset-pattern'.
===========

which sounded odd, until I realized that there is a ":?" missing in
front of "format\\|".   So perhaps one should change the regexp and
put (match-string 1) back in?

      --Boris