* On 01 Dec 2011, Derek Martin wrote: > > Incidentally, while looking this up, I ran across a post which > suggested that the intent behind specifying a specific string in the > RFC was that it made two related problems simple: ... > the second is that mail clients can simply > choose to *display* a localized version of 'Re:' instead of that > string. The hueristic for doing so is greatly simplified if the token > is standardized and invariable.
Agreed, and FWIW my 'subjectrx' patch makes that possible. It enables any kind of regex-based subject munging that affects only message display, including this: subjectrx '^([rR][eE]|[Aa][wW]):' Sv: I mainly use this patch for erasing those [MailingListName] tags that some list owners find indispensible. This patch is part of the patch queue at https://bitbucket.org/dgc/mutt-dgc/ if you want to try it. It depends on the 'replacelist' patch which precedes it. To me, "re:" is more metadata than text. You'd rarely catch any speaker of English saying it aloud. -- David Champion • d...@uchicago.edu • IT Services • University of Chicago
