Re: Incorporate message-utils.el?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 13 2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>
>> and then make hooks that frob the subject correspondingly.
>
> Okay, I think I have to do something similar to this line:
>
>   (setq subject (concat "Re: " (message-strip-subject-re subject)))

One suggestion: invoke message-make-reply-subject instead, and do
something like

(defcustom message-make-reply-subject-functions
  '(message-strip-subject-re message-util-strip-was)
  "Some useful docstring"
  ...other.custom.stuff...)

(defun message-make-reply-subject (subject)
  (let ((funcs message-make-reply-subject-functions))
    (while funcs
      (setq subject (funcall (pop funcs) subject)))
    subject))

>> What do you think?
>
> I'll try to do it. 
>
> Concerning item (d) of my previous message (default behavior strip or
> not strip the was:...-part) there are different opinions. So I think
> we need a user-variable for it at least. Whether the default of this
> variable should be 'ask or nil (never do a change) can be decided by
> the person committing the patch if we cannot find a consensus on
> this. ;-)

How about message-make-reply-subject-functions?  With a suitably
clever :type declaration, users could easily switch on/off a list of
known functions and also add their own.

kai
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