lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 1 -

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index f29fff50d63832376f74808f6385983291262cc1..2e5228e1c9609df75e8d3bba7f8c61c2035db5c3 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -777,7 +777,6 @@ 	# nb: mutt only shows the first Subject in the index pane
 	# when multiple Subject: headers are present, so we follow suit:
 	my $subj = $hdr->header('Subject') // '';
 	$subj = '(no subject)' if $subj eq '';
-	$ctx->{prev_subj} = [ split(/ /, subject_normalized($subj)) ];
 	$ctx->{cur} = $mid;
 	$ctx->{prev_attr} = '';
 	$ctx->{prev_level} = 0;