Re: [PATCH] wip: Add forward-message-refs function.

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:26:54 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.mutt.devel
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 12:26:01PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Mutt-dev wrote:
>> code (at least in the index and pager) on purpose removes References
>> that are combined from two different "parents".  See
>> https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/blob/2edbf659b7882b611fcfb4cb509b66349090134f/send.c#L827
>
>Out of curiousity, how can a message have more than one parents?
>How do I trigger such a case?  Is it that if I reply/forward while
>having several tagged paragraphs, the rpely/fwd has all the tagged
>messages as parents?  (I have never done something like that.)

Yes, exactly.  Replying to multiple tagged messages.

>> I thought the quadoption, for those who want to choose, might be a bit
>> annoying after a while.
>
>I personally don't forward enough messages that it could become
>annoying.  However, I expect if it could become annoying to someone,
>they could enable it as 'yes', and then edit out the headers in the
>editor in the few cases where they want it removed.  In general, I
>suspect one will want either yes or no, and ask-yes will be a bit rare,
>with ask-no being more rare.  Thus, I expect this manual editing would
>be rare.
>
>We'd need to allow editing the References field (currently, it's not,
>AFAIK).

Not sure about that, but I'll think about it!

>>  I'd like feedback about this implementation
>> versus a quadoption.  With two functions, you can bind to different
>> keys.  It's also possible to implement a toggle function (but of
>> course that can be done with a quadoption too):
>
>I expect one would only want one of them (likely, depending on religious
>believes), so the new function might be a bit overkill.  I'd find it
>surprising that one would want to have both functions available.

Okay, I appreciate your feedback.  The quadoption is much simpler to 
implement.  I'll see if anyone else has feedback.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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