Re: assisting in renaming thread subjects

[James Marsh <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Ian Partridge <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [15-Jan-2004 10:30]:
> 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?
> 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 do this:

macro compose s "<edit-subject>]<bol> [was: <bol>"

and then press 's' before sending to change the subject.

James.