From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 19:55:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to
Message-ID: <20160523195504.GA8957@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <1464031829-6107-2-git-send-email-tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>

Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> wrote:
> This new option takes an email message file, parses it, fills the "To",
> "Subject" and "Cc" fields appropriately and quote the message.
> This option involves the `--compose` mode to edit the cover letter quoting the
> given email.

Cool!  There should probably be some help text to encourage
trimming down the quoted text to only relevant portions.

> +	#Message body
> +	while (<$fh>) {
> +		#for files containing crlf line endings
> +		$_=~ s/\r//g;
> +		my $space="";
> +		if (/^[^>]/) {
> +			$space = " ";
> +		}
> +		$message_quoted .=  ">".$space.$_;

Is this really necessary to switch between "> " and ">" prefix?
AFAIK, MUAs prefix unconditionally with "> ".
At least that's how mutt does it...