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From: ezyang@MIT.EDU (Edward Z. Yang)
Subject: [sup-talk] Sup annoyances
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:17:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244312041-sup-9128@javelin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244308338-sup-4735@cabinet>

Excerpts from Marc Hartstein's message of Sat Jun 06 13:16:39 -0400 2009:
> sup gives you a menu to select whether to reply to Sender, Recipient,
> List, or All.  It's right up near the top of the reply-mode screen.  Use
> regular vertical movement keys to select the Reply to: line, then
> horizontal movement to select an option.

Yep, I know about this.

> You can improve the default selection using the reply-to hook.  See `sup
> --list-hooks` for documentation.

I didn't know about that.

> I found it a little weird getting used to (coming from mutt, where I
> actually used a different reply key for each mode), but the default
> behavior is generally correct, and selecting from the menu isn't too
> bad.

The trouble is I always forget to check the To: header on my mails, and
there is a ~large class of mailing list emails that don't actually do
the right thing by default.  Improving the heuristic may be an alternate
possibility.

Cheers,
Edward


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-06 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-06  6:54 Edward Z. Yang
2009-06-06  6:56 ` Edward Z. Yang
     [not found]   ` <1244308338-sup-4735@cabinet>
2009-06-06 18:17     ` Edward Z. Yang [this message]
2009-06-08 18:00 ` William Morgan
2009-06-08 23:14   ` Edward Z. Yang
2009-06-08 23:46     ` William Morgan
2009-06-09  2:13       ` Edward Z. Yang
2009-06-09  2:23         ` Edward Z. Yang
2009-06-09  2:35           ` Edward Z. Yang
2009-06-09 17:40             ` William Morgan
2009-06-11  3:18               ` Edward Z. Yang
2009-06-09 17:48           ` William Morgan
2009-06-11  3:19             ` Edward Z. Yang
2009-06-09 17:32         ` William Morgan
2009-06-09  2:38   ` Edward Z. Yang
2009-06-09 17:45     ` William Morgan
2009-06-09  3:00   ` Edward Z. Yang

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