mc v 4.5.55 shows strange bug

[Reynir Stefansson]

Chris Glur wrote:
> It just so happens that I generate/save a lot like:-
> comp.lang.functional.533
> which semms ok.
>
> Decoding the 'regex-decoding' in the mc 'script'
> is hard work, for me.
>   

After weeks of trying to bribe myself to do so, I finally sat down and 
took a look at the regex for man pages.

As far as I can tell, foo.l, foo.n, foo.3, foo.3a and foo.3bar will all 
be treated as man pages. Filenames like foo.3.1 and foo.313 will not be 
so treated. Probably the simplest solution, assuming machine-generated 
and -parsed filenames, is to change the names from 'newsgroup.nnn' to 
something like 'newsgroup.1.nnn' or 'newsgroup.00nnn'.

Regex is a write-only languish.

Reynir H. Stefánsson (reynirhs at mi.is)
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