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[Scott Palmer]

On 2011-12-10, at 5:32 PM, Dennis Brakhane wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Dennis Brakhane
> <brakhane at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> And no, while there is a filter to return the domain portion of an
>> email address, there is no
>> such filter to return the full user part of an email address, so
>> AFAICT you cannot do what you want
>> with the built-in filters.
> 
> I spoke too soon. The "person" filter is what you are looking for.
> It will transfrom "scott.palmer at bb17bfd5-26e3-0310-b67b-ca9ce5c526f2"
> to "scott palmer", replacing the dot with a space

Actually it's not exactly right either.  I want scott.palmer with the dot

But the online help isn't clear here:

hg help templates


List of filters:
...
    user        Any text. Returns the user portion of an email address.


My interpretation of "Returns the user portion of an email address" would be the stuff before the @. Splitting on the dot is somewhat arbitrary.

So is it a bug in the implementation or the online help?

Scott