Re: [9fans] Forward option for Mail

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

> I added a Forward option for acme/mail. I've been using it a few days. I
> was careful to leave the Q/Reply/all behavior unchanged.

I'd rather find a way to unify Forward and Reply.
Rob already pointed out that this is way too much text in the tags.
What does Forward do differently from Reply?
Looks like it prints "Fwd: " instead of "Re: " in the
subject line.

Do you really forward enough mail that it's more
work to double-click on "Re" and type "Fwd"
than it was to do all this editing?

If we don't put Forward in the tag, then clicking Reply,
then double-click "Re", then type "Fwd" is still less
work than typing "Forward" and clicking on it.

Perhaps there should be a way to set the default
Mail tags, and then Forward would be a little easier
to stomach, and you could have |spell (probably
Edit ,>spell) and Undo.  But I'm very wary of that too.
Using Unix software way too much over the last few
months, I have been reminded daily of the first
lesson I learned from Rob: adding interface options is
no substitute for getting the interface right to begin with.

Russ