On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42:01 +0100, Robin Green <greenrd at greenrd.org> wrote: > It's really dangerous to use the 'a' key in notmuch-mode in an inbox > thread which has multiple unread replies! Yes, the other unread replies > will still be tagged unread, but the user might not immediately be aware > of them. It would be really useful to have an optional warning ("More > unread messages in this thread, are you sure?") for this situation!
I think that's a bit extreme, but I agree that the default behavior of the emacs key bindings are not good, particularly in regards to archiving messages. I should probably just send in all of my emacs UI tweaks as patches, but here are a couple of functions/bindings I've added to my .emacs to make the message processing more sane. The main new function is notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop, which will jump to the next message in the thread, or pop out of the thread if you're on the last message. I then use this in my tag processing functions, such as archiving and deleting. hth. jamie. (defun notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop () "Show the next message or pop to parent search." (interactive) (let (r) (while (and (setq r (notmuch-show-goto-message-next)) (not (notmuch-show-message-visible-p)))) (if r (progn (notmuch-show-mark-read) (notmuch-show-message-adjust)) (let ((parent-buffer notmuch-show-parent-buffer)) (if parent-buffer (progn (kill-this-buffer) (switch-to-buffer parent-buffer) (forward-line 1))))))) (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "a" (lambda () "Archive current message and advance." (interactive) (notmuch-show-remove-tag "inbox") (notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop))) (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d" (lambda () "Delete current message and advance to next message." (interactive) (notmuch-show-add-tag "delete") (notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop))) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20110629/fc70ca80/attachment.pgp>