From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,
	Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu>,
	Daniel Schoepe <daniel.schoepe@googlemail.com>, mueen@nawaz.org,
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Subject: Re: Header and other questions
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Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:53:55 +0200
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Reply-To: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 16 May 2011 09:29:19 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:27:52 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote:
> > The decision, if I remember correctly, was that regions are so intuitive
> > for emacs users, and many people reported trying to tag by region
> > without thinking about it, that this approach would make sense for the
> > emacs interface. In other words, keep the emacs interface emacsy. I
> > think I still agree with that, since I feel like having both would be
> > confusing (what do you do when you select a marked-line in a region?)
> > and I like the one I tend toward intuitively. But I certainly see the
> > benefit of the other functionality as well.
> 
> I should mention that in my experience it's usually not that hard to
> construct searches (or filters on searches) that pair down to just the
> messages you want to tag, in which case you can just tag the entire
> buffer.

That's true. I always end up doing that way. Though, many Gnus users are
used to mark and to massage all those messages at once, thus offering
this possibility could help.

/Xavier