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From: Daniel Schoepe <daniel.schoepe@googlemail.com>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Make the queries used in the all-tags section
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 23:01:16 +0200
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On Tue, 24 May 2011 13:39:44 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> This seems like a useful feature, but perhaps it's a little too general?
>=20
> I'm imagining a user wanting to use this functionality but not knowing
> anything about writing an emacs-lisp function. For such a user, this
> variable won't provide much of a feature.
>
> I think that might be an argument for dropping this variable from the
> notmuch customization group. That customization page is starting to get
> crowded, and if there are things there that can't be easily manipulated
> with the available controls, I think they're mostly just clutter.
>=20
> Perhaps this could be addressed by allowing this variable to be an alist
> instead of (or in addition to) a function. What do you think?

Yes, allowing both, an alist or a function for this variable seems
better than forcing the user to write a function, but how should the
alist control the behaviour? I don't think people would like having to
specify a query for each of their tags, and since, by assumption, they
cannot write a function to automate this, they probably wouldn't be much
better off.  (Except of course, if they only wanted to change it for a
few individual tags).

Another option would be to also allow various symbols like 'unread (meaning
"tag:TAG and tag:unread") for "popular" queries in addition to a function.

Cheers,
Daniel

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