Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] emacs: Prefer '[No Subject]' to blank subjects.

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] emacs: Prefer '[No Subject]' to blank subjects.

Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:06:54 -0800

To: David Edmondson, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jameson Graef Rollins


On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:47:38 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:07:02 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> > Sorry to be so late on this, but I'm not a big fan of this new feature.
> > I would prefer to always see the subject (or any other field for that
> > matter) as is.
> 
> The Emacs UI always replaced blank subjects with '[No Subject]' in
> buffer names. The printing code also needed something other than a blank
> subject for buffer renaming.

I don't much care what the buffer name is.  That seems to be a
completely different issue to me.

> Updating `notmuch-prettify-subject' to use a user configurable string
> (that can be set to the empty string) sounds like a good idea. Please
> ensure that the various other bits of code that require something other
> than a blank subject still work properly.

I am actually perfectly happy to see this patch reverted.

jamie.
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