possible bug in rmail-reply command

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From: jose
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:02

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Hi,

I found a possible bug in the rmail-reply command: when you reply, the
Re: field is not inserted in the subject field. Besides, if the
subject already contains the Re: field, it gets deleted.

I think I spotted the place where the problem happens to be: in the
file rmail.el, lines 1245 and 1246:

	 (string-match "\\`Re: " subject)
	 (setq subject (substring subject 4)))

should be replaced by something more like:

	 (not (string-match "\\`Re: " subject))
	 (setq subject (concat "Re: " subject )))

I don't know if this is the right thing to do since I am not a Lisp
specialist, but apparently it seems to correct the problem.

Thank's.

Jose Rogado (jose@gr.osf.org)

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Subject: possible bug in rmail-reply command
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