Re: [PATCH] emacs: Sort saved searches

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+From: Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch@xvx.ca>\r
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Sort saved searches\r
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+Jani Nikula wrote:\r
+> \r
+> Hmm. Let's look at this from another perspective: do you know if there's\r
+> a reasonable way to make ordering of the customized saved searches\r
+> easier? It's not exactly user friendly to move items up and down in the\r
+> list. Or to sort them.\r
+> \r
+> On the other hand, the tags are sorted. Saved searches are not. Should\r
+> it be possible to display tags in user defined order...?\r
+> \r
+> I know I can twist this the way I want and carry my own modifications, \r
+> but I'd like to make notmuch user friendly for people who don't know \r
+> elisp.\r
+> \r
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+My two cents on this, as someone who uses notmuch as a Gmail-alike for\r
+non-Gmail email:\r
+\r
+I keep my saved searches in a particular order, kind of emulating the Gmail\r
+sidebar: unread, inbox, sent, all mail.  Putting these in alphabetical order\r
+either direction would not achieve the goal of having the most\r
+used/important saved searches first (i.e. I hardly ever use all mail, so it\r
+shouldn't be first in the list).\r
+\r
+The tags list, on the other hand, I like having sorted to make tags easy to\r
+find.  It has a different purpose than saved searches for me, so its\r
+behavior is different.\r
+\r
+I think having an option to sort the saved searches is a fine idea.  The\r
+Emacs Way would probably be to have an option for the sort order that takes\r
+the name of a function, which is called to sort the searches.  My first\r
+thought is that this isn't very user-friendly.  But, thinking about it a bit\r
+more, if the default causes the searches to be sorted alphabetically, and\r
+setting the value to nil causes them not to be sorted, then it's\r
+user-friendly for the two most common cases, and still 100% customizable for\r
+those who want different sort orders.\r
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+-- \r
+Adam Wolfe Gordon\r
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