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Re: rmail-toggle-header problem
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: rmail-toggle-header problem |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:34:23 +0900 |
Chetan Pandya writes:
> Assuming it is [the case that users prefer only a small set of
> headers to be yanked], would it not make more sense to make that as
> the default? It is always possible to copy whatever headers that
> are deemed necessary, but I suspect that isn't a very common
> operation.
That *is* the default and will continue to be the default under all
schemes proposed so far, in the following sense.
Users rarely look at the non-author headers. So yanking the displayed
headers does what you want by "default". (If you want more control,
use supercite.)
The exception is when there is a problem with the *mail system*. In
that case, they toggle the headers to full display, and in that case,
they are quite likely to want to forward *all* headers to a mail
admin. It is unlikely that somebody who has toggled full-display will
fail to notice that, and if they do, recovery is just C-x k RET yes
RET C-t R. (Not terribly short, but shorter and more accurate than
trying clean headers by hand. BTW, forgive me if I got the keystrokes
wrong, those are the VM equivalents but I think they're the same in
Rmail.)
Nobody has proposed that all headers be included all the time as far
as I can see.
Finally, copying all headers is tedious and error-prone, which is
exactly what you don't want when you are composing a problem report.
I conclude that unless you want to provide a separate facility to
configure the yanked headers, yanking exactly the displayed headers is
the best possible scheme.
- Re: rmail-toggle-header problem, (continued)
- Re: rmail-toggle-header problem, Richard M Stallman, 2009/02/20
- Re: rmail-toggle-header problem, Chetan Pandya, 2009/02/20
- Re: rmail-toggle-header problem,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: rmail-toggle-header problem, Chetan Pandya, 2009/02/20
- Re: rmail-toggle-header problem, Stefan Monnier, 2009/02/20
- Re: rmail-toggle-header problem, Glenn Morris, 2009/02/20
- Re: rmail-toggle-header problem, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/02/21
Re: rmail-toggle-header problem, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2009/02/20
Re: rmail-toggle-header problem, Xavier Maillard, 2009/02/22