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35 Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Sort saved searches
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56 > Hmm. Let's look at this from another perspective: do you know if there's
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57 > a reasonable way to make ordering of the customized saved searches
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58 > easier? It's not exactly user friendly to move items up and down in the
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59 > list. Or to sort them.
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61 > On the other hand, the tags are sorted. Saved searches are not. Should
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62 > it be possible to display tags in user defined order...?
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64 > I know I can twist this the way I want and carry my own modifications,
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65 > but I'd like to make notmuch user friendly for people who don't know
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69 My two cents on this, as someone who uses notmuch as a Gmail-alike for
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72 I keep my saved searches in a particular order, kind of emulating the Gmail
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73 sidebar: unread, inbox, sent, all mail. Putting these in alphabetical order
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74 either direction would not achieve the goal of having the most
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75 used/important saved searches first (i.e. I hardly ever use all mail, so it
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76 shouldn't be first in the list).
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78 The tags list, on the other hand, I like having sorted to make tags easy to
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79 find. It has a different purpose than saved searches for me, so its
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80 behavior is different.
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82 I think having an option to sort the saved searches is a fine idea. The
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83 Emacs Way would probably be to have an option for the sort order that takes
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84 the name of a function, which is called to sort the searches. My first
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85 thought is that this isn't very user-friendly. But, thinking about it a bit
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86 more, if the default causes the searches to be sorted alphabetically, and
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87 setting the value to nil causes them not to be sorted, then it's
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88 user-friendly for the two most common cases, and still 100% customizable for
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89 those who want different sort orders.
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95 View this message in context: http://notmuch.198994.n3.nabble.com/PATCH-emacs-Sort-saved-searches-tp3304068p3313863.html
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