On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:07:13AM -0800, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Sunday, 25 February 2007 at 14:32, Moritz Barsnick wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:09:13 -0700, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > > > > > For simplicity and sanity, I really like the crypt-autoselectkey patch > > > (http://www.woolridge.org/mutt/crypt-autoselectkey.html). > > > > I second this one. Very practical indeed, and even annoying when > > missing. ;-) > > Reading it over, I'm not sure why it isn't the default behaviour. Has > anyone ever raised any objections to this patch? I'd be tempted to > strip the option part out. Yes, Thomas did actually, when I complained about this behavior way back in 2002: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-dev&m=104007060428756&w=2 For reference, my original message is here (not that there's much point in actually reading it): http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-dev&m=101042933302207&w=2 While Thomas's explanation was a bit vague, I believe his reasoning was basically sane, at least at heart. Though, after 5 years I've forgotten the details, and IIRC even after his explanation I'm pretty sure I felt the behavior was actually rather backwards. If I'm not mistaken, Mutt would match an *e-mail address* in the pgp-hook without prompting, but would not match a *key ID* without prompting. Though I may well be mistaken. If not, this seems obviously backwards to me... The key ID is far less likely to encounter a collision than a regular expression matching an e-mail address. I believe there also has been some work to improve this since that time, though I believe the actual change was not very substantial, and as I mentioned I have lost track of all the salient details. I imagine Thomas would know much better. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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