On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 04:05 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2010, 00:19 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > > In mailing-list folders, especially high-traffic ones, I don't usually > > have All Messages selected in the Show drop-down menu. It might be New, > > or Last 5 Days, or some label. Nevertheless I do sometimes want to see > > the context of a message (usually a new one but not always). IOW I want > > to see the thread the message belongs to. > > > > Currently the only way to be sure of getting everything is to select All > > Messages. It would be nice to have the option of showing all messages in > > the thread to which the current message belongs. I guess a really fancy > > version would be to show *only* the thread (those familiar with Emacs > > and its concept of "narrowing" will know what I mean), but it doesn't > > need to be that elaborate. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > a) Select the subject of the message, paste it into the search field and > select all messages in the show drop down box.
No good, because it will catch anything with the same subject (in fact anything of which that subject is a substring). Subjects do not define threads. It's also laborious. > b) Use the context menu to create a search folder, using e.g. the > subject as criterion. I don't want to create a search folder every time I need to glance at the context of a message. And again, it's laborious. Note that we already have Ctrl-H (select thread) so it's not like Evo doesn't have the machinery for this, however Ctrl-H only selects messages which are visible according to the Show: criterion. In fact a kludge solution would be to make Ctrl-H always select from the entire current folder. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
