Would you believe I never even noticed the Edit Subject link in Gmail! I definitely would have used it otherwise. And in Outlook, since the full text search is so abysmal, I got in the habit of adding keywords in the subject line so I could do subject line searches. I hate not being able to find an email I know is in there. In Gmail it's better, but you still can't search attachments, so it will find some use.

daddydave

Doesn't that defeat one of the biggest attractors to Gmail, the email threading? If you change the subject line, you lose that threading. I could see people using this rarely.

I do wish they would allow you to add emails to different threads. A lot of people I email include something in the reply and it screws my threading up. So I wish I could add those emails back into the thread.

xious

Yes, please add this to Better Gmail 2!

Chad Cloman

perfect!

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dvo

Handy script, I have had to make changes in subject field several times, this will save me a extra click :)

Keith Dsouza

@xious: For those who for some reason have a need to change the subject line often, this would help them out. If you don't need to edit the subject line, just don't edit it. If you do, you won't have to click "edit subject line" every time. Everybody wins.

alexjohnc3

it's good for when you want to force a conversation to a new topic, when you see the non-Gmail user responding to a very old message because they find that easier then replying to your current message or they haven't seemed to figure out where their address book is and how to put a new email address into it.

kg4dni

@xious: E-mail has header fields which show which messages a message is in response to. (In particular: References and In-Reply-To. Gmail writes both fields.) It seems like proper threading should use those header fields instead of the subject. So it seems to me Gmail threading is basically broken; it ought to thread by those fields and maybe only use the subject as backup.

dreamlayers

I just edit the subject if I want to mail back to a group and tell them about something different. '"Edit Subject" link'?!?!? never seen something like that!

But I always poped out the mail to an extra window. There was the Subject-Edit-line always enabled! Thats now obsolete! :] good job!

BTW: @lifehacker: When posting greasemonkey scripts: Could you please link the userscripts.org link as well? so we can fan it, rate it there as well?

ewerybody

Plus, I like the simplicity of the Gmail interface. Features that I rarely use are still there, they are just made very inconcpicouos. That's the main appeal of Gmail I think.

gravi_t

"If you edit your email subject in reply to messages frequently, but hate to have to reach for the mouse to start in Gmail"

You will still have to actually click in the subject line I guess. With the mouse...

gravi_t

I'm using Gmail in Chrome right now, and in Opera before that, but the underlying need caught my attention.

My semi-rare (but still too frequent) need to the subject line of an email is due to lack of email etiquette on the part of the sender. I'm thinking of messages with no subject at all, or multiple unrelated subjects in the same email, or the entire message body in the subject line.

If you come across any tools - maybe electro-shock therapy? - that might nip these problems in the bud, please do post them.

MyTQuinn

@daddydave: Try adding "lookout" to outlook. It is a decent search add on.

ColoradoShark

@ColoradoShark:
I've heard of Lookout, but I'm not allowed to install random software on my work computer unfortunately.

daddydave

@gravi_t: You know, that's very true. Once you click the Edit Subject button, the cursor is already put in the Subject field. So you are actually not saving any clicks at all. So what's the point?

xious

I would love to see this in better gmail.

yehoni