Re: [PATCH 3/3] send-email: handle to/cc/bcc from --compose message

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 6:15 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> If the user writes a message via --compose, send-email will pick up
> varius headers like "From", "Subject", etc and use them for other

s/varius/various/

> patches as if they were specified on the command-line. But we don't
> handle "To", "Cc", or "Bcc" this way; we just tell the user "those
> aren't interpeted yet" and ignore them.
>
> But it seems like an obvious thing to want, especially as the same
> feature exists when the cover letter is generated separately by
> format-patch. There it is gated behind the --to-cover option, but I
> don't think we'd need the same control here; since we generate the
> --compose template ourselves based on the existing input, if the user
> leaves the lines unchanged then the behavior remains the same.
>
> So let's fill in the implementation; like those other headers we already
> handle, we just need to assign to the initial_* variables. The only
> difference in this case is that they are arrays, so we'll feed them
> through parse_address_line() to split them (just like we would when
> reading a single string via prompting).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>