* Variable used to detect reply prefixes in Subject
@ 2022-01-23 14:13 Jonas Bernoulli
2022-01-23 15:58 ` Teemu Likonen
2022-01-23 19:43 ` David Bremner
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jonas Bernoulli @ 2022-01-23 14:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: notmuch
Hello,
Please tell me what variable I have to customize to recognize additional
unusual prefixes that some people add to the subject when they send a
reply.
I searched using some strings I would expect to appear in the value of
that variable but either got no results or way too many.
Thanks!
Jonas
Ps: Since (I assume) many notmuch users also frequent emacs-devel,
where a frequent commentator uses the prefix "RE: [External] : ",
maybe notmuch could even recognize that by default? (I asked him
to consider not doing that anymore, but even if he agrees, that
would not affect his numerous past replies.)
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* Re: Variable used to detect reply prefixes in Subject
2022-01-23 14:13 Variable used to detect reply prefixes in Subject Jonas Bernoulli
@ 2022-01-23 15:58 ` Teemu Likonen
2022-01-23 19:43 ` David Bremner
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From: Teemu Likonen @ 2022-01-23 15:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonas Bernoulli, notmuch
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* 2022-01-23 15:13:18+0100, Jonas Bernoulli wrote:
> Please tell me what variable I have to customize to recognize
> additional unusual prefixes that some people add to the subject when
> they send a reply.
There is message-subject-re-regexp.
> Ps: Since (I assume) many notmuch users also frequent emacs-devel,
> where a frequent commentator uses the prefix "RE: [External] : ",
> maybe notmuch could even recognize that by default? (I asked him
> to consider not doing that anymore, but even if he agrees, that
> would not affect his numerous past replies.)
Yes. That is annoying. I have written a custom Subject cleaner for my
replies:
(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'my-message-subject-clean)
(defun my-message-subject-clean ()
;; Delete first \( ... \) group from Subject header.
(my-with-message-headers
(let ((case-fold-search nil))
(dolist (re '(".*\\(\\[ ?SPAM\\(?: UNSURE\\|\\?\\)? ?\\] \\(?:Re: \\)?\\)"
".*\\(\\(?:Re: \\)* *\\[External\\][ :]*\\(?:Re: *\\)*\\)"))
(goto-char (point-min))
(when (re-search-forward (concat "^Subject: " re) nil t)
(delete-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)))))))
(defmacro my-with-message-headers (&rest body)
(declare (indent 0))
`(save-excursion
(save-restriction
(save-match-data
(message-narrow-to-head)
,@body))))
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* Re: Variable used to detect reply prefixes in Subject
2022-01-23 14:13 Variable used to detect reply prefixes in Subject Jonas Bernoulli
2022-01-23 15:58 ` Teemu Likonen
@ 2022-01-23 19:43 ` David Bremner
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From: David Bremner @ 2022-01-23 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonas Bernoulli, notmuch
Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Please tell me what variable I have to customize to recognize additional
> unusual prefixes that some people add to the subject when they send a
> reply.
>
> I searched using some strings I would expect to appear in the value of
> that variable but either got no results or way too many.
There is some simple (-minded?) processing in notmuch-reply.c, which
just adds Re: to the front of the subject if it is not already present.
The original headers are also returned, so in principle the emacs front
end could do something smarter.
d
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