From: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
To: Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: queries switching from MH-E to notmuch
In-Reply-To: <10952.1313657529@maps>
References: <10952.1313657529@maps>
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:30:21 -0700
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:52:09 +0100, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.u=
k> wrote:
> 1. Deleting emails=20
>=20
> I've seen the suggestions on the emacstips for  keybindings to bind 'd'
> to adding deleted tags.  But how do you then delete the mails from
> the local Maildir (and then for offlineimap to propagate back the
> deletions to the remote imap server)?  Do you run cron jobs to do this?

Hey, Stephen.  I purge deleted mails from the command line, with
something like xargs:

notmuch search --output=3Dfiles tag:delete | xargs -l rm

> 2. viewing both the search results and current thread
...
> By contrast, in notmuch it seems that you either see just the search
> results, or one thread, but not both.  Would it be feasible to get
> something more like the behaviour of VM and MH-E?  I can write elisp
> fluently, but before I look into it, I thought I'd check to see whether
> this is feasible.  (I've just seen that this is the bottom item on Keith
> P's wish list: http://keithp.com/notmuch/)

I don't know of anyone who has worked on this, but it sounds like it
could be interesting (and that others might be interested), so go for
it!

jamie.

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