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2009-11-24 Thread Jan Janak
On 24-11 08:38, Keith Packard wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:14:07 +0100, Jan Janak wrote: > > > I like this. I think this is much cleaner than the "virtual tag" > > approach. > > A disadvantage I see is that you would not see this 'virtual tags' in > the list of tags on each message. Maybe

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2009-11-24 Thread Bart Trojanowski
* Keith Packard [091124 11:38]: > A disadvantage I see is that you would not see this 'virtual tags' in > the list of tags on each message. And, we'd have to put the virtual tags > in the .config file or the command line would become a lot less > useful. Speaking of which, we should put the

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2009-11-24 Thread Jan Janak
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Carl Worth wrote: > And notice, I don't think we'll need to do the "virtual tag" thing of > associating a tag name with a search and doing the work of making > notmuch maintain the consistency of that tag and search string. It will > be much more clean (and

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2009-11-24 Thread Jed Brown
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:43:26 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:16:54 -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > > Then tags become something that are just for manual manipulation. What > > do you think? I really think this is the way to go. > And disadvantages as searching might actually be

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2009-11-24 Thread Keith Packard
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:14:07 +0100, Jan Janak wrote: > I like this. I think this is much cleaner than the "virtual tag" > approach. A disadvantage I see is that you would not see this 'virtual tags' in the list of tags on each message. And, we'd have to put the virtual tags in the .config file

[notmuch] notmuch 'index' mode.

2009-11-23 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:16:54 -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > So what next for the user? We've got lots of empty space in the folder > view, so I think what I'd like is to provide some suggestions on search > strings to try, and then to make it obvious how to associate a name with > a search string.

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2009-11-23 Thread Carl Worth
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:18:33 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:06:06 +0100, Carl Worth wrote: > > > > * The mode documentation really needs to walk the user through how to > > setup a custom set of folders. > > You can use the standard emacs customization interface,

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2009-11-23 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:35:29 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > I posted a patch adding an 'index' mode to notmuch and though I'd > explain my idea. Most mail systems provide a 'folder view' mode which > displays the set of folders and a count of messages in each folder. I > used this myself as the

[notmuch] notmuch 'index' mode.

2009-11-22 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:06:06 +0100, Carl Worth wrote: > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:35:29 -0800, Keith Packard > wrote: > > I posted a patch adding an 'index' mode to notmuch and though I'd > > explain my idea. Most mail systems provide a 'folder view' mode which > > displays the set of folders and

[notmuch] notmuch 'index' mode.

2009-11-20 Thread Keith Packard
I posted a patch adding an 'index' mode to notmuch and though I'd explain my idea. Most mail systems provide a 'folder view' mode which displays the set of folders and a count of messages in each folder. I used this myself as the first sort of which messages I want to read. Notmuch doesn't have