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24 From: Keith Amidon <camalot@picnicpark.org>
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42 Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, Keith Amidon <keith@nicira.com>
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43 Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH 6/9] Reply to individual messages using
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59 {-- Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:22:36 -0800: Carl <cworth@cworth.org> wrote: --}
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62 Carl> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:30:12 -0800, camalot@picnicpark.org wrote:
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63 >> From: Keith Amidon <keith@nicira.com>
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65 >> As an alternative to creating a reply from the current thread, this
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66 >> commit provides functions to create replies directly in emacs using
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67 >> the message library.
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69 >> A future commit will provide keybindings so that they are easy to
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70 >> change if a different set is preferred.
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72 Carl> Can you fill me in a little bit here? The message-mode
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73 Carl> documentation is quite thin on what the distinctions are between
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74 Carl> "reply", "wide-reply", and "followup".
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76 Roughly this is my understanding of the
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79 reply: reply only to the sender and no other recipients
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80 wide reply: reply to all recipients (removing self)
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81 followup: mainly intended for replying to news articles I believe is
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82 the trigger for the Mail-Followup-To behavior. See:
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84 http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/message/Mailing-Lists.html#Mailing-Lists
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86 Carl> Meanwhile, I don't think we have any need to support different
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87 Carl> implementations of reply, (that is---I don't want one binding
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88 Carl> for a "notmuch-based reply" and another for a
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89 Carl> "message-mode-based reply" without any functional difference in
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92 I agree. It wasn't clear to me when each type of behavior was useful
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93 and so I erred on the side of making everything available with long
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94 key bindings with the idea that as it became clear what was most useful
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95 the common short key bindings could get those functions.
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97 Carl> Instead I'd like to define what the functionality is that we
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98 Carl> want here, and then provide that. I do like taking advantage of
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99 Carl> things like message-mode functionality wherever it exists, so
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100 Carl> I'm happy to have the default reply button do
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101 Carl> (with-current-notmuch-show-message (message-reply)) or whatever.
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103 Carl> But meanwhile, I'll *also* want to understand what the
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104 Carl> variations are here so that we can *also* implement them inside
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105 Carl> of "notmuch reply" so that non-emacs-based interfaces can easily
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106 Carl> get at similar functionality.
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108 Carl> So I'm holding off on pushing this patch until I understand it
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109 Carl> better, (and documentation strings for the new functions might
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110 Carl> help for that---provided they have more detail than the
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111 Carl> corresponding documentation strings for the message-mode
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112 Carl> functions being called).
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114 I'll try to improve my docstings next time around. Sorry about that!
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