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36 From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
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37 To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian@sspaeth.de>,
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39 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] emacs: notmuch-help: Integrate into the emacs help
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67 I'll think about putting together that patch, although I am going on
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68 vacation for a few weeks shortly, so it might not happen particularly
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71 IME trying to use emacs without any window splitting is a bit of a lost
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72 cause, but maybe you're right that it's possible if you're /just/ using
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73 notmuch, so I'll work on that patch.
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77 On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:29:42 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
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78 > On Sat, 15 May 2010 17:07:42 -0400, Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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79 > > On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:47:24 -0700, "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@sspaethde> wrote:
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80 > > > On 2010-05-14, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
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81 > > > > I just tried this and one thing I did not like...
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83 > > It's worth documenting. I'd prefer not to override it in notmuch-help,
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84 > > because it's important to me that it behave like other help functions in
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85 > > emacs. users could defadvice it or something if they really want.
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89 > I appreciate your desire to make notmuch work more consistently for
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90 > experienced users of emacs.
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92 > But this is a case where I think the emacs defaults are wrong for a new
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93 > user, (I'm imagining someone getting started with notmuch and that
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94 > otherwise doesn't use emacs regularly).
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96 > For a user like this I think it's important for the notmuch emacs
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97 > interface to not do any window-splitting by default. Without any
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98 > splitting the new user is given a consistent experience, (notmuch often
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99 > opens new windows and the user can clear any window by pressing "q" and
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100 > seeing the previous window).
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102 > But with window splitting, the user now needs to know a new command for
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103 > undoing the split, (such as C-x 1) or for switching between the windows
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106 > So for this particular feature, I want the default behavior to open the
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107 > help window just like any other notmuch window, (even though that
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108 > doesn't match what emacs typically does for help windows). Then the
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109 > "experienced" emacs suers can be given a configuration option to get the
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110 > desired behavior.
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112 > Would you care to put together a patch to do that?
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117 > carl.d.worth@intel.com
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