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Re: how about the notion of filters for replying, etc.



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On Thursday, December 28 at 10:03 AM, quoth Sweth Chandramouli:
> $editor only gets the new message as its input, though; as I 
> understood it, Travis' proposal was for there to be a way for the 
> message being replied to to be passed to a script as well.

...? You mean like this:

    set editor="myfilter.pl | $EDITOR"

> That would obviate the need for kludges like stuffing info into the 
> attribution line for $editor to parse out and then remove, and allow 
> for making changes in replies where you didn't want to have any 
> quoted material at all, and would allow the script in question 
> access to any info that can't be put into the attribution line 
> because there aren't format strings defined for them (e.g. arbitrary 
> X- headers).

I don't follow you... how would it do this?

~Kyle
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