Fix replying to weird Re: variants

Fix replying to weird Re: variants

[Matt Armstrong]

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.  :-)


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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)

Re: Fix replying to weird Re: variants

[Per Abrahamsen]

Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:

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

Which client is that?  I know nn did it, but that was a decade ago and
was quickly fixed after massive flames.

Re: Fix replying to weird Re: variants

[Frank Schmitt]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
 
>>when replying to people that generate subjects like "Re[2]: whatever".
>
>Which client is that?  I know nn did it, but that was a decade ago and
>was quickly fixed after massive flames.

For example the windows MUA "The Bat!". (But it's a great program
nevertheless and one can turn it off.)

-- 
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One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
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19. Dezember 2001

Re: Fix replying to weird Re: variants

[Per Abrahamsen]

Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>  
>>>when replying to people that generate subjects like "Re[2]: whatever".
>>
>>Which client is that?  I know nn did it, but that was a decade ago and
>>was quickly fixed after massive flames.
> 
> For example the windows MUA "The Bat!". (But it's a great program
> nevertheless and one can turn it off.)

nn was great too, that is no excuse for behaving badly by default.
Please flame the flying rodent!

Lars rejected patches to make Gnus fix the MSOE brain dead "Re: "
localization for political reasons, I guess these reasons would also
apply to smaller applications.

Re: Fix replying to weird Re: variants

[Henrik Enberg]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
> 
>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>>  
>>>>when replying to people that generate subjects like "Re[2]: whatever".
>>>
>>>Which client is that?  I know nn did it, but that was a decade ago and
>>>was quickly fixed after massive flames.
>> 
>> For example the windows MUA "The Bat!". (But it's a great program
>> nevertheless and one can turn it off.)
> 
> nn was great too, that is no excuse for behaving badly by default.
> Please flame the flying rodent!
> 
> Lars rejected patches to make Gnus fix the MSOE brain dead "Re: "
> localization for political reasons, I guess these reasons would also
> apply to smaller applications.

Bug Gnus _does_ fix such stupidities when replying.  If you use the
right regexp of course.

'(message-subject-re-regexp "^\\(\\(\\([Rr][Ee]\\|[Ss][Vv]\\|[Aa][Ww]\\): *\\)+\\)")

Henrik
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Re: Fix replying to weird Re: variants

[Matt Armstrong]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:
> 
>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>>  
>>>>when replying to people that generate subjects like "Re[2]: whatever".
>>>
>>>Which client is that?  I know nn did it, but that was a decade ago and
>>>was quickly fixed after massive flames.
>> 
>> For example the windows MUA "The Bat!". (But it's a great program
>> nevertheless and one can turn it off.)

And "Becky" which is a popular Japanese mailer.  In both The Bat! and
Becky, the mis-feature is easily turned off.

> nn was great too, that is no excuse for behaving badly by default.
> Please flame the flying rodent!

I now have procmail bounce such mails from "The Bat!" and "Becky"
pointing to a URL describing how to disable the behavior.

> Lars rejected patches to make Gnus fix the MSOE brain dead "Re: "
> localization for political reasons, I guess these reasons would also
> apply to smaller applications.

That's silly -- the whole point of Gnus is that it is overly
featureful to the point of actually being useful.  :-)

By that same logic, gnus-simplify-subject in gnus-sum.el should not
recognize these weird Re: variants.


-- 
matt

Re: Fix replying to weird Re: variants

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Henrik Enberg <henrik@enberg.org> writes:

> Bug Gnus _does_ fix such stupidities when replying.  If you use the
> right regexp of course.
>
> '(message-subject-re-regexp "^\\(\\(\\([Rr][Ee]\\|[Ss][Vv]\\|[Aa][Ww]\\): *\\)+\\)")

I've included this as an example in the manual.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen