[PATCH] emacs: Allow user to choose "From" address when composing a new message.

[Thomas Jost]

On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:17:05 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> > I'll also send a few additional patches that make it possible to choose
> > the "From" address when forwarding a message and when replying to a
> > message.
> 
> The only real concern I have with the series is that it grabs 'R' for
> reply-with-custom-from where I've been planning to implement 'R' as
> reply-to-sender-only, (a long-missing and often-requested feature).

That would be nice indeed :)

> When I first started implementing the custom-from feature I planned to
> use a prefix argument to get the behavior (such as "C-u m" rather than
> "M" for compose-new-mail-with-custom-from). You might even see I've got
> some code written along those lines.

Good idea, this will probably seem more natural for Emacs users.

> When I went to test it though, it didn't work. That was probably some
> silly mistake on my part, (we do already have working code that changes
> behavior with a prefix argument in the case of "M-RET" for example).
> 
> If you want to update the series to move away from capital-letter
> keybindings in favor of a prefix argument, I'll be glad to accept it.

Done and tested locally, seems OK so far. This makes the code smaller
and IMHO nicer because it eliminates all the -prompt-for-sender
variants. I'll send the updated patch series very soon.

Thanks,

-- 
Thomas/Schnouki
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