Hi

I'd like to propose to truncate any trailing s/\(\s*update.*?\)\s*$//i from node-titles in replies.

Reasoning:

Many, me included, flag important updates to their posts by adding an (updated?) to their titles, which is fine.

But this becomes nonsensical when replies are also named (updated) because it's inherited.

I could provide a patch, now that I've identified the add_re_to_title-code responsible for the Re^n: -parts in the titles.

Examples:

?node_id=3989;HIT=%28update (click search)

Opinions???

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Proposal: Truncating trailing '(update)' from node-titles in replies by LanX

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