Kevin J. McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> wrote on Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 23:20:55 EST in <YeD6JwujzfxVc/e...@afu.lan>:
> I've been told other prefixes are often used in some lists, and the practice > is getting more common. Why not give users the option to adjust it, if they > deem it appropriate, for some lists? The reason not to is that the knob encourages the proliferation of alternative prefixes and that is bad for everyone. Perhaps mutt has a sufficiently small market share that our knob-availability does not really affect the world enough for this to matter? BUt I would like to think that it does. > I'm willing to back the change out, but Mutt also gives the option for crazy > things like $indent_string. I don't think by giving the option I'm > *encouraging* it, but it does make it easier to adjust if they want. For sure an option is "encouraging" users to change the value more than a source-patch or a gdb script would! (err, sorry, lldb script? Welcome to the current century). I'm not sure the consequences of people using alternative $indent_strings are as bad as alternative $reply_prefixes, though. One is confined to the content of a message and the other affects critical message metadata that is often displayed in abbreviated form. And for a given message, many more people read (or try to read the parsed version of) the Subject: than the body. But I don't feel as strongly as Vincent, I just think the argument should be a bit more...grounded. -- jh...@alum.mit.edu John Hawkinson
