From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7506 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Urs Thuermann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: relax the comparison of subject lines Date: 11 Jun 2006 21:56:02 +0200 Organization: escape e.V. - Verein zur Foerderung der Datenkommuniation Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150058426 26941 80.91.229.2 (11 Jun 2006 20:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 20:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 11 22:40:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FpWjM-0002zS-8A for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FpWjL-0001QT-Qy for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:40:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!gaertner.de!escape.de!janus.isnogud.escape.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: janus.isnogud.escape.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77689 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7506 Archived-At: I'd like to modify the comparison of subject lines, which determines if the subject line in a summary buffer is the same as the previous one (and therefore not repeatedly printed) or not. AFAIK, the usual comparison considers two subject lines equal, if they are exactly identical or if they only differ in that one of them has a "Re: " prepended. I am on one mailing list, where the mailing list server inserts a space after the colon of the "subject:" header of each message posted. This causes Gnus to consider the subjects to be different, as they appear as "Subject: foo" "Subject: Re: foo" or "Subject: Re: foo" i.e. it looks like a " Re:" or a " Re: " has been prepended. I have written to the list and asked this to be fixed, but don't know if and when it will be done. Micro$hit loves to disturb many mailing list users by using "AW: " for the german word "Antwort" which means reply, instead of the "Re: " which is described in some RFC (forgot the number, probably 2822). Others use "RE: " instead of "Re: ". I have seen some MUAs append a space to the subject line when replying to a mail. All these bugs should of course better be fixed in the broken MUAs and mailing list servers, but since they mostly will not, it would be nice if I could configure Gnus to consider all these subjects equal, i.e. two subjects should be equal, if one of them has " *([Rr][Ee]|AW): *" prepended and/or if it has " *" appended. It would further be nice, if replying to a subject "AW: foo" would cause Gnus to generate a subject "Re: foo" in the reply instead of "Re: AW: foo". Can this be done? urs