Re: mutt.

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From: David Champion
Subject: Re: mutt.
Date: 05:29 on 24 Jan 2006
* On 2006.01.23, in <20060124032706.GA15715@xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx>,
*	"Guy Thornley" <guy@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> You'd think that by 2006 that it would be OK to have the Fcc: of messag=
es
> set to either
>=20
>         (a) the folder of the message you reply to, or
>         (b) the current mail folder, if a new message

Not to rain out your f=EAte, but:
Fcc: ^


> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i

(You might need to upgrade for this to work.  I think this feature
was available only as a patch prior to 1.5.10, and since you haven't
posted to any mutt mailing lists to ask about this devilish problem, you
probably don't know about the patch.)


> but nooo, not in mutt. Impossible. Using shell-fu to emit 'set record' =
hooks
> for all the mailboxes is gay, since it doesnt work for IMAP.

Let's talk about what else is gay, please.  I'd like to hear more about
that.  I expect it makes for good conversation over coffee and biscuits.


> The Genius of it, actually the simple Brilliance and Sheer Glory, is th=
at
> is implementing the \0, \1 ... regex match substitutions that *every*
> reasonable scripting language has would fix it.

But mutt isn't a scripting language, nor has it one....  And how many
mailers have regex matching at all, let alone with subexpression
substitution?  Let's keep our apples with apples.

Now post what's *really* bugging you!  Cause, you know, this wouldn't be
that bad even if it were an actual problem.


...

It's a funny thing about posting to a software hate list: you sometimes
ring up people who are considerably involved in the things you hate.
But that's ok, I've got no room to complain.  I still hate CPAN.pm, for
instance.  And what use is a hate list if you have to mind everyone's
feelings?  Hi, Jarkko!

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