On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Monte Stevens <montk...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:44:38AM -0500, James wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Monte Stevens <montk...@yahoo.ca> wrote: >> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:03:08PM -0500, James wrote: > >> I did not build this myself. I inherited the .muttrc from a friend and >> tinkered with it / added things to it. I never ran into any issues >> until now with the brackets. > > I'd recommend using the default then if you have no requirement to use > the regexp you inherited. > >> I guess I don't understand the purpose of regex_reply. Can someone >> give me a clearer definition? Again, my understanding was that mutt >> used this regex to determine if the message you're reading / >> responding to was a reply to another message. > > From Michael's post on June 17: > Yes it will remove something. As you quoted reply_regexp is also used > when replying. > Mutt will match $reply_regexp match against the subject and replace > everything matching (at the start of the string) with just "Re: " > Say you get a message with the subject "Aw: test" and reply to it. You > get with the default reply_regexp "Re: test". > > source: http://marc.info/?l=mutt-users&m=124524776520486&w=2 > > The muttrc manual uses the word "recognize" which seems to be what is > causing confusion (for me as well). Perhaps it should use "recognize" > for threading and "manipulate" for replying. >
Great. I think this clears things up. So theoretically a well-written regex_reply will take "Re: RE: Re: <blah>" and replace it with "Re: <blah>"? Any good regex_reply configurations out there? -j
