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Subject: Re: forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs
From: Jeremy Nickurak <not-much@trk.nickurak.ca>
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Sigh. Premature posting...

Adam Wolfe Gordon on here gave me a tip for this. It's not perfect, but it
works:

Start forwarding each of the emails, and just cut-and-paste the
<#mml>..</#mml> sections out of the buffers into a new email. That'll have
the effect of forwarding all the emails.


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Jeremy Nickurak
<not-much@trk.nickurak.ca>wrote:

> Adam
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <
> dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>
>> hi notmuch folks--
>>
>> i'd like to be able to forward several messages from a given thread (up
>> to and including the whole thread) to someone else.  I use
>> notmuch-emacs.
>>
>> I don't think it's possible to do this at the moment;
>> notmuch-show-forward-message just forwards the message where the point
>> is located, even if the current region covers more than one message.
>>
>> I'd be happy to have a notmuch-show-forward-thread or
>> notmuch-show-forward-all-expanded-messages or
>> notmuch-show-forward-messages-from-region capability, but my elisp-fu is
>> weak.  I'd be happy to test if someone wanted to send me a patch though
>> :)
>>
>> Background: one of the reasons that people often give for the terrible
>> e-mail practice of top-posting-with-all-previous-messages-trailing is
>> that they want to be able to send a message to someone else and have
>> them be able to see the whole thread (never mind that these kind of
>> reverse-chronological forwarded messages are difficult to read).  I'd
>> like to be able to respond to those claims with something like
>> "reasonable MUAs should let you easily forward all messages in a thread
>> if you want to catch someone up."
>>
>> I consider notmuch-emacs a reasonable MUA :)
>>
>> thanks everyone for notmuch,
>>
>>         --dkg
>>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Sigh. Premature posting...<div><br></div><div style>Adam W=
olfe Gordon on here gave me a tip for this. It&#39;s not perfect, but it wo=
rks:</div><div style><br></div><div style>Start forwarding each of the emai=
ls, and just cut-and-paste the &lt;#mml&gt;..&lt;/#mml&gt; sections out of =
the buffers into a new email. That&#39;ll have the effect of forwarding all=
 the emails.</div>
</div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed,=
 Apr 24, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Jeremy Nickurak <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D=
"mailto:not-much@trk.nickurak.ca" target=3D"_blank">not-much@trk.nickurak.c=
a</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">Adam</div><div class=3D"gma=
il_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div><div class=3D"h5">On Tue,=
 Apr 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a hre=
f=3D"mailto:dkg@fifthhorseman.net" target=3D"_blank">dkg@fifthhorseman.net<=
/a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;bo=
rder-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class=3D"h5">hi notmuc=
h folks--<br>
<br>
i&#39;d like to be able to forward several messages from a given thread (up=
<br>
to and including the whole thread) to someone else. =C2=A0I use<br>
notmuch-emacs.<br>
<br>
I don&#39;t think it&#39;s possible to do this at the moment;<br>
notmuch-show-forward-message just forwards the message where the point<br>
is located, even if the current region covers more than one message.<br>
<br>
I&#39;d be happy to have a notmuch-show-forward-thread or<br>
notmuch-show-forward-all-expanded-messages or<br>
notmuch-show-forward-messages-from-region capability, but my elisp-fu is<br=
>
weak. =C2=A0I&#39;d be happy to test if someone wanted to send me a patch t=
hough<br>
:)<br>
<br>
Background: one of the reasons that people often give for the terrible<br>
e-mail practice of top-posting-with-all-previous-messages-trailing is<br>
that they want to be able to send a message to someone else and have<br>
them be able to see the whole thread (never mind that these kind of<br>
reverse-chronological forwarded messages are difficult to read). =C2=A0I=
9;d<br>
like to be able to respond to those claims with something like<br>
&quot;reasonable MUAs should let you easily forward all messages in a threa=
d<br>
if you want to catch someone up.&quot;<br>
<br>
I consider notmuch-emacs a reasonable MUA :)<br>
<br>
thanks everyone for notmuch,<br>
<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 --dkg<br>
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