From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmailedit can now handle changes in headers.
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:28:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvskmf7b71.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bpt4h74n.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:32:40 +0900")
>>> what is the need behind this feature ? It is not clear to me.
>>
>> Obviously, editing a mail message should support editing its headers
>> as well, don't you think?
> Certainly sounds reasonable to me, tho I don't use rmail:
> If you present the message for editing without the headers, it would
> seem weird -- the user normally sees the headers, and thinks of them as
> being part of the message -- but if you include the headers in the
> editing buffer, they should be editable...
More importantly: the main modification I ever feel like making to
messages is to change the subject, so that I can find them more easily
in the summary.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-15 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-14 15:33 rmailedit can now handle changes in headers Richard M Stallman
2009-02-14 17:31 ` martin rudalics
2009-02-14 19:55 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-02-14 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-15 0:32 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-15 19:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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2009-02-16 7:24 Xavier Maillard
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