On Monday, 2019-11-11 at 00:16:17 +01, Johan Parin wrote:
I'm probably doing something wrong but I find myself frustrated
with the handling of unread in the emacs-mua.
In notmuch-search I found the default bold face for unread of
notmuch-search-unread-face not enough to make them stand out so
I tried something like
(setq notmuch-search-line-faces
'(("unread" . '(:foreground "SkyeBlue"))
(setq notmuch-search-line-faces
'(("unread" :foreground "SkyeBlue")))
(And I don't have a “SkyeBlue”, just “SkyBlue”.)
which ought to work according to the doc, but did not
work. Fortunately however it works to define a new face with
defface and use that.
(setq notmuch-search-line-faces
'(("unread" . my/notmuch-unread-face)))
So that problem solved.
My real frustration lies in the thread view. Typically threads
will be partially read and I want to read only unread messages.
I find the show view confusing because I don't clearly see the
message boundaries. Also I always need to start with C-u M-RET
to get an overview of the thread. In this view the unread stand
out a bit due to the colorization of the unread tag, which is
typically visible. I still would like to be able to colorize the
entire line or the author here, for unread. Is it possible?
The single-line summary of the message is drawn using
notmuch-message-summary-face, which you can customise. This would
be the same for all messages in the thread, though (no distinction
for “unread”).
You could perhaps abuse notmuch-tag-formats to force unread
message header lines to stand out more.
I'm trying instead to use the tree view, this seems to me the
more natural way to view threads. So I immediately do `Z'
whenever I enter a thread. I would like to have the option to
enter tree view automatically for a thread from the search
buffer. Is it possible?
“Z” in search mode should take you directly to tree mode.
In tree view however, again I would like to colorize the unread
messages. Haven't found a way to do this and reading
notmuch-tree.el it seems it's not possible. Is there a way?
Since I like to keep my window to 80 chars the tag display is
outside the visible area and I find myself doing C-e to find the
unread tags. This is very inconvenient.
Also I would like to navigate to the next unread message, and
would prefer the `n' binding to do that instead of go to next
message. Haven't found a binding for that.
Finally when entering the tree view I would like the first
unread message to automatically be shown.
I'm not a tree mode user, so I'm not familiar with it.
I guess the above can be summarized as, I would like to have the
option to have a gnus-ish way of viewing threads.
Tree mode is the closest, I think.
Again, I'm probably doing something wrong and / or am missing
some possibilities here, it would be very interesting to hear
others work flow for thread reading.
notmuch doesn't generally obsess about the “unread” tag quite as
much as the “inbox” tag. Maybe you are used to orienting yourself
around “unread” (which is important in Gnus, I'd agree) and
thinking about how to look at “inbox” instead would help?
dme.
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