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Re: assisting in renaming thread subjects



* Ian Partridge <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [15-01-2004 11:06]:

> I am on quite a few mailing lists. Often, the topic being
> discussed in a thread morphs, but lazy posters do not change the
> subject header accordingly.
> 
> It seems to be a net-wide convention to use the format:
> 
> Subject : Some topic
> 
> becomes
> 
> Subject : A new topic (Was: Some topic)
> 
> Does Mutt support a command to manage this automatically?

No.

> Something like an 'update-subject' command to automatically add
> the "(Was:" ... ")" strings to subject headers when the user
> enters an updated subject.
> 
> If it doesn't, perhaps someone could suggest a simple solution to
> do this.

I think this can best be done by your editor.  Set $edit_headers and
come up with a clever macro;  for vim, this shouldn't be very hard.

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