feature request: parameters for reply templates

Jörg Volbers joerg at joergvolbers.de
Wed May 13 01:03:12 PDT 2020


OK, seems there is something I do not understand. What do you mean 
with "spec in mind"?

JV


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:

> 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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