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From: Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>
Subject: Fix replying to weird Re: variants
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:50:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873d4gmgnw.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> (raw)

It'd be cool if somebody with commit privileges would make this
change.

This patch against current CVS improves message.el's ability to strip
stupid variants of the "Re:" subject prefix.  I stole the relevant
portion of the regexp in gnus-simplify-subject that had to deal with
the same issue.

With this patch, you won't end up with a subject of

     "Re: Re[2]: whatever"

when replying to people that generate subjects like "Re[2]: whatever".

I know I could just customize this locally, but I'd like to make the
world a better place.  :-)


===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/message.el,v
retrieving revision 6.130
diff -u -r6.130 message.el
--- lisp/message.el	2001/10/16 12:55:17	6.130
+++ lisp/message.el	2001/10/19 03:41:25
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
   :group 'message-interface
   :type 'regexp)
 
-(defcustom message-subject-re-regexp "^[ \t]*\\([Rr][Ee]:[ \t]*\\)*[ \t]*"
+(defcustom message-subject-re-regexp "^[ \t]*\\([Rr][Ee]\\([[(^][0-9]+[])]?\\)?:[ \t]*\\)*[ \t]*"
   "*Regexp matching \"Re: \" in the subject line."
   :group 'message-various
   :type 'regexp)



             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-19  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-19  3:50 Matt Armstrong [this message]
2001-10-19  4:53 ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-19  8:07   ` Frank Schmitt
2001-10-19  8:39     ` Per Abrahamsen
2001-10-19 15:17       ` Henrik Enberg
2001-12-29 23:45         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-10-19 15:56       ` Matt Armstrong

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