cutting@bopp.PARC.xerox.com (Doug Cutting) (08/05/89)
RMAIL currently removes "Re: " at the beginning of the subject field when replying to messages. I would prefer it add "Re: " to the beginning of subject field in replies (unless it is already present). I have changed rmail.el to have this behavior when the flag rmail-reply-add-re-p is true. This variable is false by default, giving the original behavior. Following are the diffs required for this change. I would very much appreciate it if this change made it into some future release of emacs. Doug 60a61,63 > (defvar rmail-reply-add-re-p nil > "*If true, then the subject field of replies is prefixed with \"Re: \".") > 1207,1208c1210,1214 < (string-match "\\`Re: " subject) < (setq subject (substring subject 4))) --- > (if (string-match "\\`Re: " subject) > (or rmail-reply-add-re-p > (setq subject (substring subject 4))) > (and rmail-reply-add-re-p > (setq subject (concat "Re: " subject)))))