From: Antoine =?utf-8?Q?Beaupr=C3=A9?= <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>
To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,
	Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz@cern.ch>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Message deletion wisdom
In-Reply-To: <87sjgk2xzf.fsf@servo.finestructure.net>
References: <0cc49af3-5415-419d-97ef-2bec76117d63@CERNFE22.cern.ch>
	<87sjgk2xzf.fsf@servo.finestructure.net>
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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:20:43 -0400
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On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:32:04 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestr=
ucture.net> wrote:
> So in summary, if you would like to "delete" messages, you can:
>=20
>  * add a key binding to emacs (or your favorite ui) to add a "deleted"
>    tag to messages that you want to delete:
>=20
>     (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"
>       (lambda ()
>         (interactive)
>         (notmuch-show-tag-message "+deleted")))

Thank you for this. I had tried to reroll your patches
(id:"1326826969-23545-1-git-send-email-jrollins@finestructure.net") on
top of 0.12 and that was a miserable failure, so the above works
well. In fact, I have made it like this instead:

(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"
  (lambda ()
    (interactive)
    (notmuch-show-tag-message "+deleted")
    (notmuch-show-next-open-message)))

... but it doesn't seem to actually go to the next message... oh well,
at least I can delete mail.

Also note that you can delete whole threads with this:

(define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "d"
  (lambda ()
    (interactive)
    (notmuch-search-tag-thread "+deleted")
    (notmuch-search-next-thread)))

... and I have added an undelete function:

(define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "u"=20
  (lambda ()
    (interactive)
    (notmuch-search-tag-thread "-deleted")
    (notmuch-search-next-thread)))

>  * and if you really want them purged from disk, delete them manually
>    with:
>=20
>     notmuch search --output=3Dfiles tag:deleted | xargs -l rm

I use this script:


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Finally, I want to voice that I feel a "delete" key, even if it doesn't
delete mails, seems like an important part of a mail user
agent. Archiving mail is one thing, but for the love and respect of
sysadmins and the infrastructure they maintain, please consider adding
at least a way to *tag* those deleted emails.

Having the above keys being defined as standard in notmuch don't seem
like much to ask.

This may be a dissenting view here, but your mail is not that
important. :P

Cheers,

A.
=2D-=20
L'art n'est pas un bureau d'anthropom=C3=A9trie.
                        - L=C3=A9o Ferr=C3=A9, "Pr=C3=A9face"

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