GNU bug report logs - #72442
31.0.50; Gnus or message.el doesn't handle international message reply subject prefixes and insults users

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 72442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de
Subject: Re: bug#72442: 31.0.50; Gnus or message.el doesn't handle
 international message reply subject prefixes and insults users
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:15:03 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de,  72442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:37:15 +0200
> 
> The current setting for rmail is more complete than the suggestion in
> the Gnus manual, except itʼs missing:
> 
> - "RÉ"
> - an optional "." after "Antw"
> - an optional space between the "RE" string and the ":"
> - "FW"/"FWD"
> 
> The first 3 seem obvious. Adding the last might annoy people :-)
> 
> I can add those to `rmail-re-abbrevs', but perhaps itʼs better to have a
> new defcustom that both rmail and message would use? Something like
> 'mail-re-regexps' in "mail-utils.el" perhaps? Plus some appropriate
> editing of the manual.

Sounds like a good plan to me, thanks.

For backward compatibility, let's leave rmail-re-abbrevs in place, and
just initialize it from that new defcustom.

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