From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>,
	Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] emacs: unify search mechanisms
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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:42:47 +0200
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:43:37 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:44:28 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:14:52 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> 
> > Were there actual complaints about the usability of the current
> > approach?
> > 
> > I much preferred your alternative approach (merging the history while
> > leaving the UI alone).

FWIW, I liked this approach too. I do use the notmuch-hello view, and
also the search box.

> Personally I would like to be able to customize the hello screen to
> remove the search box. I find it confusing that that 's' jumps to the
> search box there, and everywhere else brings up the mini-buffer. That
> might be just me, and the fact that I bind "C-c s" globally to
> notmuch-search.  I could easily believe that for new users having a
> search box is nicer.

Would it be a suitable compromise to bind 's' to notmuch-search (the
mini-buffer search) also in notmuch-hello, while leaving the search box
there with a common history?

I'm not sure moving the point to search box needs a keybinding (but
notmuch-hello-goto-search could still be there if the user wants to add
a keybinding).


BR,
Jani.