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29 Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove message archiving from show-advance-and-archive
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55 On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:50:15 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
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56 > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:49:43 -0400, Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
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57 > > The function to advance through threads with the space bar is useful.
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58 > > However, the current implementation also archives messages. The idea
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59 > > of archiving a message should not be intertwined with the processes of
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60 > > advancing through messages to read them. Archiving in general should
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61 > > be a separate operation that one does explicitly. This patch just
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62 > > renames the advance function "notmuch-show-advance", and removes the
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63 > > archiving of a thread when the end of the thread is reached.
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65 > The other piece of the magic space bar that people have complained about
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66 > is that it intertwines advancing among messages within one thread with
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67 > advancing from one thread to the next. (And only the first operation is
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68 > reversible by backspace.)
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70 This has always confused me - I think I've complained about it before as
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73 > I think we'll probably want to change that at the same time.
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75 > Meanwhile, I'm currently working on support for piping a whole thread of
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76 > messages as an mbox to a process, (mostly getting bogged down in trying
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77 > to fix mbox support in git).
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79 > For that, I think I want the current '|' binding to pipe the current
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80 > message and then a new binding ("M-|" ?) to pipe every (open) message in
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83 > Which makes me think that other operations should work similarly. '+'
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84 > and '-' should change tags on the current message (as they do currently)
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85 > and then new "M-+" and "M--" could change tags on all (open) messages in
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88 > That would highlight the current 'a' as out of place since it's
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89 > currently archiving every message in the thread. So I'd then fix it to
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90 > be 'a' for the current message and "M-a" for every (open) message in the
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93 I really like this. It's consistent and I'm sure I'll get used to it
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94 quickly. The only question now is "all messages in a thread" or "all
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95 open messages in a thread". I'd vote for all.
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97 Oh - and I really want a way to do surgery on threads. Merge threads to
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98 fix Blackberry users breaking threads. And split threads for
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105 Intel Open Source Technology Center
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