* 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. -- René Clerc - (rene@xxxxxxxx) - PGP: 0x9ACE0AC7 All you need is love. -John Lennon
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