To: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] notmuch: Add support for listing the parent message
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From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:24:30 +0000
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On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:06:39 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:28:40 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:56:57 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > When you have long thread, it would be nice to be able to
> > > show the message to which the current message is a reply
> > 
> > The patch fires up a new search, destroying my context. Shouldn't the
> > parent message be visible in the current thread and, if so, perhaps just
> > searching in the current buffer for it (and jumping back there) be
> > possible? (Maybe even with a key to pop back to the child easily.)
> > 
> 
> It should actually stack up. That is, it fires up a new search but then a
> 'q' should bring back the old context. One of the thing i really
> wanted to keep was the ability to go back to the old context with a key
> binding which in this case is achieved by 'q'

I played some more and I agree, it's fine as is.