[PATCH v7.1 11/11] NEWS: news for reply enhancements

Subject: [PATCH v7.1 11/11] NEWS: news for reply enhancements

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:30:16 -0600

To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Adam Wolfe Gordon


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 NEWS |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a739914..46fb191 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,18 @@ Reply to sender
   to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
   --reply-to=(all|sender).
 
+JSON reply format
+
+  "notmuch reply" can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
+  for a reply message and full information about the original message
+  begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligtently.
+  For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
+
+  Calling notmuch reply with --format=json imposes the restriction that
+  only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
+  multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
+  retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
+
 Tag exclusion
 
   Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
@@ -48,6 +60,14 @@ Reply to sender
   and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
   reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
 
+Reply improvement using the JSON format
+
+  Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
+  the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
+  message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
+  reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
+  available.
+
 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
 
   All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
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