Re: [PATCH 0/2] add format specifiers to display trailers

> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > > We have %s and %b so that we can reconstruct the whole thing by
> > > using both.  It is unclear how %bT fits in this picture.  I
> > > wonder
> > > if we also need another placeholder that expands to the body of
> > > the
> > > message without the trailer---otherwise the whole set would
> > > become
> > > incoherent, no?
> > 
> > I'm not entirely sure what to do here. I just wanted a way to
> > easily
> > format "just the trailers" of a message. We could add something
> > that
> > formats just the non-trailers, that's not too difficult. Not really
> > sure what I'd call it though.
> 
> I was wondering if %(log:<name of a part>) was a better way to go.
> 
> %(log:title) and %(log:body) would be equivalents of traditional %s
> and %b, and %(log:body) in turn would be a shorter way to write
> %(log:description)%+(log:trailer), i.e. show the message body, and
> if there is a trailer block, add it after adding a blank line.
> 
> Or something like that?