On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 01:50:54AM +0530, Mandar Mitra wrote: > On a related note, I'd like to suggest the following "intelligent" reply > feature. > > When the default reply key (say 'r') is typed, mutt should automagically > know / ask whether to reply to list / all / sender only. It might use > some variant of the following algorithm. > > 1. Ask whether to reply to all. Have a quadoption configuration variable > to determine whether group-reply is the default. > > 2. If the user chooses not to reply to all, and one of the addresses in > the original message (either To: or Cc:) is a list address (specified > via lists or subscribe), ask whether the reply goes to the sender > or the list. Could have a quadopion configuration variable for this > as well. > > 3. Could have a variable to control different handling for mailing list > messages and other messages (e.g. I prefer group-reply by default for > regular messages, and reply-to-list-only for list messages). > > If this sounds reasonable and has not already been implemented as a patch, > I could give it a shot, but given my lack of familiarity with the codebase, > it's likely to take forever. > > Sorry if this has already been discussed before. Grateful for any feedback, > mandar.
Personally, I feel that mutt already has all of that functionality if not more. It's simply a matter of using/choosing the keystrokes to achieve what you need. I do understand the point you are making, though :-)
