; * lisp/mail/rmail.el (rmail-simplified-subject): Dodge relint nag

diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
index 7ef3754dad15deb5cb4eddef5a9309de1d09f95d..e479a8e9b4a5ba57a57e51f9644b464e1ae008f6 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
@@ -3360,7 +3360,7 @@ tags such as [tag]."
     ;; Corporate mailing systems sometimes add `[External] :'; if that happened,
     ;; delete everything up thru there.  Empirically, that deletion makes
     ;; the Subject match the other messages in the thread.
-    (if (string-match "[[]external][ \t\n]*:" subject)
+    (if (string-match "\\[external][ \t\n]*:" subject)
         (setq subject (substring subject (match-end 0))))
     (setq subject (rfc2047-decode-string subject))
     (setq subject (replace-regexp-in-string regexp "" subject))