On 06Aug2012 09:27, Jamie Paul Griffin <ja...@kode5.net> wrote: | 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 :-)
"Choosing" is often tricky. Can I write comething to say "choose list-reply if a known list, otherwise group-reply"? (Without tediously reiterating any list I've already mentioned as subscribed.) Personally I always use group-reply on any message and briefly consider the recipient list before proceeding, in part because of this issue. Also, I (personally) consider plain reply (reply-to-author) to be a bit of a UI design flaw in most user agents as it is presented as the default. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> With searching comes loss and the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. - Haiku Error Messages http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html
