On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 07:40:45PM +0100, Toby Cubitt wrote: > > in discoursing from the armchair without actually trying to implement it, > there are very quite likely difficulties I'm missing here.
See, it's not all that easy :) So before spending a lot of time to figure it out, I thought it a good idea to see if there's already a solution available. > Anyway, personally, I would set $edit-headers and implement this in the > editor rather than in mutt. I hear vim is reasonably scriptable these > days, but I find Lisp to be a more elegant language... ;-) That would be a good approach if I could program emacs. Unfortunately, I'm finding Lisp anything else than elegant --- rather totally unreadable and not at all understandable. > But if you prefer to do your coding in C, that's great too. It would only be the easiest way for me. > I just thought you might want to avoid having to hack the mutt > source code, Yes, that's something I want to avoid. > Good luck! Thanks!