[PATCH 2/2 v2] emacs: Prefer '[No Subject]' to blank subjects.

[David Edmondson]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:06:54 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:47:38 +0000, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:07:02 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> > > Sorry to be so late on this, but I'm not a big fan of this new feature.
> > > I would prefer to always see the subject (or any other field for that
> > > matter) as is.
> > 
> > The Emacs UI always replaced blank subjects with '[No Subject]' in
> > buffer names. The printing code also needed something other than a blank
> > subject for buffer renaming.
> 
> I don't much care what the buffer name is.  That seems to be a
> completely different issue to me.

I agree that they could be treated differently.

With blank subjects the printing code generated an error (because
`rename-buffer' doesn't like an empty string as the first argument), so
_some_ change is required.

> > Updating `notmuch-prettify-subject' to use a user configurable string
> > (that can be set to the empty string) sounds like a good idea. Please
> > ensure that the various other bits of code that require something other
> > than a blank subject still work properly.
> 
> I am actually perfectly happy to see this patch reverted.

Whatever bremner decides.
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