This affects prefilled subject of a reply to an email with an empty
subject.
---
Let me explain why I think this is a good idea.
First, "Re: your mail" sounds like a spam mail heading and doesn't
convey any useful information.
Second, setting the subject to just "Re:" will enable the user to
immediately fill in the rest according to the contents of their email
if they want to. Otherwise "Re:" should be enough to signify that this
is a reply to an email with an empty subject line.
It might be tempting to extract this part into a configuration
variable, but I doubt anyone would really welcome the opportunity to
invent some generic "Re: ..." subject. This variable will probably be
used only to localize the setting.
This is why, if this change is not turn out to be desirable, at the
very least, "your mail" portion should be localized. Some mail clients
also translate "Re:" part, but I think it should be avoided as "re" is
not an English abbreviation, but a Latin one.
send.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/send.c b/send.c
index 1d469041..aa77f529 100644
--- a/send.c
+++ b/send.c
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ void mutt_make_misc_reply_headers (ENVELOPE *env, CONTEXT
*ctx,
sprintf (env->subject, "Re: %s", curenv->real_subj); /*
__SPRINTF_CHECKED__ */
}
else if (!env->subject)
- env->subject = safe_strdup ("Re: your mail");
+ env->subject = safe_strdup ("Re:");
}
void mutt_add_to_reference_headers (ENVELOPE *env, ENVELOPE *curenv, LIST
***pp, LIST ***qq)
--
2.27.0
