[PATCH 1/2] emacs: maildir fcc make insert more flexible

[David Bremner]

David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> writes:

> On Monday, 2017-08-28 at 12:27:03 +0100, Mark Walters wrote:
>
>>>>  The fcc-header should be of the form \"folder +tag1 -tag2\" where
>>>
>>> I realise that this patch set didn't add this string, but it is mildly
>>> ridiculous. There's no reason that we couldn't use a list, where a
>>> leading “+” or “-” indicates a tag and anything else is a folder.
>>>
>>> Even two variables (one for folder and another for tags) would be an
>>> improvement
>>
>> The reason for this choice is that, when writing the postpone code, I
>> wanted to keep within the message mode compose world, which has the fcc
>> header as a string.
>
> You could add whatever headers you like.
>
>> I think I would also only like to be queried once when inserting. Or are
>> you suggesting that the user types in a lisp list?
>
> If we prompt for it then we could do multiple prompts - we already have
> a completion-capable reader for tags.
>

There was in fact a request for this feature in
id:87shgtgiux.fsf at len. OTOH, it seems like a lot of this discussion
talks about enhancing or re-factoring the existing draft/fcc
handling. Would it be possible to seperate that out, even if it means a
list of pre-requisite changes before this feature is added?

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