feature request: parameters for reply templates

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Tue May 12 14:17:44 PDT 2020


On Tue, May 12 2020, Jörg Volbers wrote:

>> My gut reaction is that doing more formatting in notmuch reply 
>> is probably a mistake; it's hard enough to get two users to 
>> agree on these kind of customizations, never mind two different 
>> MUAs. Probably what we need to do is make sure the structured 
>> (json/s-expr) output has enough information for clients to do 
>> what they need/want to do.
>
> I agree, but why not add some switches which allow to turn some 
> aspects of the reply output on or off? I am thinking here in 
> particular of the parts which are not plain text. Since not every 
> mail has an attachment, it makes perfect sense to let the user 
> decide whether a reply includes a text reference to the 
> attachment. A simple on-off-switch would be enough.

Did you have spec in mind ? =D

>
> JV
>

Tomi


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