On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:41:17 -0700, Carl Worth <cwo...@cworth.org> wrote: > One of the searches that I use most frequently, (for mail that I want to > respond to on a fairly timely basis), is > > tag:inbox and tag:to-me [*] > > Sometimes, this search will show a large mailing-list thread with only a > few messages open. Perhaps part-way through the thread, someone started > to CC me. Or perhaps my address got dropped from the CC at some > point. Either way, I am presented with a subset of the messages from the > thread, even though all of the thread's messages are in my inbox still. > > That much is just fine. I'm giving priority to messages where people > thought I would be particularly interested, and that's just as it should > be. > > A bad bug occurs when paging through the thread with the space > bar. After showing me these few messages, it will then proceed to > archive *all* the messages in the thread (not only those it showed > me). And I'm likely to be unaware of this since the closed (but not yet > archived) messages are not easily distinguished from messages that were > previously closed and archived. > > Some people will claim (and I've even agreed) that the space bar is too > magic. But this bug also happens with an explicit command to archive the > current thread (such as hitting 'a'). > > I think the fix is to change these commands to only archive the messages > that are currently open. That will make these operations behave as I > expect, and I don't think will cause any unexpected or confusing > behavior. But please let me know if you disagree.
I am always confused about the behavior of 'a' - does it archive the current message? Or the current thread? Or the current thread down to where I am? Or (as you propose) just the open messages? I think we really need to spend some time to crsiply define the semantics of these commands. /D -- Dirk Hohndel Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch