I’m bringing up the feature request mentioned before: Retract posts opened 06:51PM - 02 Nov 17 UTC (UTC) closed 10:40AM - 25 Oct 18 UTC (UTC) [haeckser] haeckser …

good news \o/ - one of the next versions will get “Edit Message” as well as “Delete Message for Everyone”, see iOS Screenshots , Android Screenshots and discussion [414968117-a887ff7c-b95d-4f6d-860e-b18b9512a51c]

[image] thjderjktyrjkt: Yes I know it’s not a guarantee, I know one could just take a screenshot of the messages, and neither does Telegram avoid that. Also there is the question how to show that in email with people that use normal email clients. I agree editing to correct typos is useful (…

OK because you asked for it, though I’m not the only one with an opinion on this :wink:: Edit messages as a User: Good idea, but how does this look in text only mode? as a Dev: hard implementation effort generating those html emails, also html emails could clash with the planned markdown support…

Some competing chat-over-email apps (“Spike”, though I’ve never used it myself, this comes from reading about it) have a ten second delay before the email gets actually sent. So you can unsend it if you spot the error within ten seconds. One idea that comes to me right now is to have a variable del…

@thjderjktyrjkt I guess deleting sent messages could be done in a best-effort kind of way and similar to how WA and others do it. Last time i checked one could delete WA messages if they are just a few minutes ago, and i think it also takes into account if the other side has already seen the message…

@Simon As of 1) in edit messages: I also agree this is hard to implement (You need something Git or WinMerge does which compares differences) so you could always go for the latter method instead (just replying to the original message). I came up with that idea only because if you reply to original…

So let me put some caveats in here. Y’all know how I feel about these Delta-generated messages when they are sent to any non-Delta MUA. They are inappropriate, intrusive, and for us who email people in multiple languages, an internationalization mess. We need to be careful about expectation ma…

So for exmaple if someone sent this example* It’d edit the preceding message to “So for example if someone sent this” Uh, I now realize that you’d need the reverse of that. Since we’re not editing from the non-Delta side. In headers (please use the X- prefix this time!) we can have the full repl…

They are inappropriate, intrusive, and for us who email people in multiple languages, an internationalization mess. I quickly came up a thought on this. Although it’s best to be discussed in a separate feature proposal. Indicate your preferred language in header. For example like lang=en-us , an…

Retract/edit sent messages

Feature Proposal

thjderjktyrjkt November 25, 2021, 7:19am 3

Some thoughts on this

Edit messages in Delta Chat