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32 From: Mueen Nawaz <mueen@nawaz.org>
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33 Subject: Re: Header and other questions
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34 Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 21:36:28 -0700
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61 Jameson Graef Rollins
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62 <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:
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64 > On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:27:52 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote:
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65 >> The decision, if I remember correctly, was that regions are so intuitive
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66 >> for emacs users, and many people reported trying to tag by region
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67 >> without thinking about it, that this approach would make sense for the
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68 >> emacs interface. In other words, keep the emacs interface emacsy. I
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69 >> think I still agree with that, since I feel like having both would be
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70 >> confusing (what do you do when you select a marked-line in a region?)
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71 >> and I like the one I tend toward intuitively. But I certainly see the
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72 >> benefit of the other functionality as well.
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74 > I should mention that in my experience it's usually not that hard to
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75 > construct searches (or filters on searches) that pair down to just the
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76 > messages you want to tag, in which case you can just tag the entire
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79 I guess so. I still haven't really switched to notmuch for real mail so
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80 I have little experience. I don't quite remember why I would have found
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81 it handy when I wrote it, but it was while I was busy experimenting with
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82 tagging my existing archive.
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