Re: Integrating message-utils.el into Gnus?

[Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net>]

On Fri, Apr 27 2001, Matthias Wiehl wrote:

[Full quote, because cited message is quite old]

> At <http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~schauer/emacs.html>, Holger
> Schauer [1] provides a file called message-utils.el [2].  It contains
> a few complementary functions for use with Gnus' message-mode.
>
> Personally, I find three of those functions extraordinarily useful:
>
>   o  `message-change-subject' asks for a new subject, and modifies the
>      message's Subject header in a way that is RFC 1036bis compliant:
>      `new subject (was: old subject)'.
>
>   o  `message-strip-subject-was' can be hooked into
>      `message-header-setup-hook'.  It strips `(was: old subject)' from
>      the Subject header (which is what user agents are supposed to do)
>      as far as I know) when entering message-mode.  Both slrn and tin
>      do this out-of-the-box.
>
>   o  `message-xpost-fup2' asks for a newsgroup name (providing
>      tab-completion via gnus-newsrc-alist).  This name is then
>      appended to the Newsgroups header, and the Followup-To header
>      is modified to contain only the given newsgroup name as its
>      value.  Furthermore, a customizable note is inserted in the
>      message body, saying that a Followup-To header has been set.
>
> Is there any chance of integrating these functions into the standard
> Gnus distribution?
>
> -------
> [1] <mailto:Holger.Schauer@gmx.de>
> [2] <http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~schauer/resources/emacs/message-utils.el.gz>

`message-change-subject' and `message-strip-subject-was' are features
that are requested quite often (and the usual answer is `Gnus +
message-utils.el'). WIBNI Gnus would support this out of the box?

Bye, Reiner.
-- 
       ,,,
      (o o)
---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- PGP key available via WWW   http://rsteib.home.pages.de/