[RFC] Smart replying

[Nicolás Reynolds]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:35:13 -0500, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I know that folks recently got done haggling over reply bindings, but
> there's something I've been using for a little while, and I was curious
> about whether it's something people would be interested in. Forgive me
> if this functionality was already discussed and I missed it.
> 
> The problem is that I often forget to reply-all to list mails and write
> out half a message, and then have to cut and paste. So, as usual, my
> solution is to try and have emacs figure it out for me.
> 
> Pretty simple: have a variable `reply-all-list'. If an address in the
> `To' or `CC' fields is in that list, 'r' replies-all. If not, it
> replies-sender. CTRL-r (or whatever) forces `reply-sender', on the rare
> occasion I want to take a conversation offline.
> 
> The nice thing about this is, if `reply-all-list' is nil, then it acts
> as normal, so it wouldn't make a difference to most users.
> 
> The implementation that's been sitting in my .emacs is below. I'm not
> offering it as a patch, because I don't quite understand the current
> relation of notmuch-show.el and notmuch-mua.el. 
> 
> If people are interested, though, I could make it into a patch. And, if
> not, I hope it's a snippet that someone finds useful.

I'll try it, it's been bothering me also on reply-to-list lists :)

(There's also C-c C-l but it doesn't work for me)
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