Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:56:59 -0500
From: Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
To: Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>
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Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] notmuch.el: add functionality to add or
 remove tags by region.
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:35:34AM -0500, Jesse Rosenthal wrote:
> Region is emacs-speak for selected area (either click-and-drag or C-SPC
> and then motion commands). Basically, this was meant to be an emacsy-way
> of tagging a bunch of messages in a buffer at once.

I understand what a region is in emacs land, but I don't understand
how it translates to mail land.  Notmuch is not to my knowledge
capable of tagging a sub-region of a message, so in that sense it
might not work.  If you goal is to tag only a subset of messages in a
thread, then regions don't seem like the most natural way to do that,
since regions are non-disjoint.  Would it be better to use some sort
of tag/apply system ala mutt instead?

jamie.