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brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

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Mutt users... Extra spaces in replies, does this happen to you?

When i reply to an email from mutt, an extra space gets added between the Re: and the actual subject.

this works well in that my first reply is "Re: Some Subject Line" and not "Re:Some Subject Line".  however, after a few days of emailing back and forth on the same thread, i end up with an inbox like this:

Re:   Some Subject Line
Re:  Some Subject Line
Re: Some Subject Line
Some Subject Line

is this an intended functionality? or a function of my the reply_regexp setting?

the above occurred while using the default setting, and many other reply_regexp settings including my current one:

set reply_regexp='^(([Rr][Ee]?(\[[0-9]+\])?: *)?(\[[^]]+\] *)?)*'

is there another config option i'm missing here?

{edited for clarity and typos}

Last edited by brisbin33 (2008-11-26 17:03:07)

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thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: Mutt users... Extra spaces in replies, does this happen to you?

Hrmm...I've never experienced this issue, and I use the default setting.

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brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,796

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Re: Mutt users... Extra spaces in replies, does this happen to you?

yeah definitely happening to me with default reg_exp.

i could see it being on purpose; you don't want your reply to "Subject" to be "Re:Subject"; you'd want "Re: Subject".  but i want that to stop after the first email; if i'm sending emails back and forth an extra space is inserted with each correspondence.  bizarre.

if anyone's interested:
~/.muttrc
~/.vimrc
~/.vim/mail

[FYI: i've been having issues with my ftp server; it works for me but if you encounter errors please message me.  i can email what you were looking for and you can help me debug ]

Last edited by brisbin33 (2008-12-01 15:44:40)

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