another attempt to fix escaping and unescaping and revise the filtering.

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+2001-12-12 [alfons]    0.6.5claws81
+
+       0.6.5claws80 was tagged as LAST_STABLE
+
+       * src/filtering.[ch]
+       * src/matcher.[ch]
+       * src/matcher_parser_lex.c
+               fix the filtering; my last attempt to get it right, 
+               if it does not work, it's Hoa's turn. ;-)
+
+               for my honourable peers:
+               
+               the code now makes a clear distinction between
+               rules as they are displayed (probably escaped),
+               and as they are executed (probably unescaped). the
+               parser does *NOT* do any unescaping, this is
+               the task of the matcher.c (which breaks up a
+               rule into condition) and the filtering.c (which
+               breaks up the rule's action). to make this
+               run happily we provide an unescaped copy of
+               crucial strings to the MatcherProp and 
+               FilteringAction structures. note that the only
+               exception to this is any REGEXP string. those
+               are directly passed to regcomp() and regexp()
+               (who have much more powerful unescape functions).
+               
+               for everyone else:
+       
+               you can escape tab (\t), carriage return (\r),
+               linefeed (\n), form feed (\f), quote (\"), 
+               single quote (\'), bell (\b) in all the entry
+               lines in the scoring & filtering dialogs.
+               as an added bonus this should not affect
+               existing filtering rules.
+
 2001-12-12 [carsten]   0.6.5claws80
 
        * src/summaryview.c