Re: [PATCH 0/3] Allow widen reply

Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Allow widen reply

Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 23:53:37 +0300

To: Mark Walters, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jani Nikula


Hi Mark -

On Sat, 11 May 2013, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an initial draft of a patch to allow the emacs frontend to
> "widen" the reply: i.e., change the headers to reply-to-all after a
> reply-to-sender has been started.

I didn't look at the patches very much, but I like the idea, a lot. This
is the way it should be.

> There are some things that need to be worked out: do we want to allow
> narrowing the reply (ie going from reply-to-all back to
> reply-to-sender)? I did not implement this as it was slightly easier
> not to, message-mode doesn't have this by default, and it's easy for a
> user to remove recipients.

Might be useful, but can be added later on.

The same for better handling of mail-followup-to: and reply-to:. For
those, I'm not sure if a keybinding for "widening" the recipients is the
right choice, as they both mean *changing*, not necessarily widening the
recipient list. Maybe you can come up with an approach here that extends
well to those too later on. ;)

BR,
Jani.

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