Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-15 Thread David Edmondson
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:07:03 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > > (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "d" > > (lambda () > > "delete thread and advance" > > (interactive) > > (notmuch-search-add-tag "deleted") > > (forward-line))) > ... > > This only works if you've already loade

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-15 Thread Michal Sojka
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Darren McGuicken wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:05:58 +0100, Michal Sojka wrote: > > I agree with you in that in many cases tags can be replaced by saved > > searches. Last time I did it, i.e. used saved searches to distinguish > > messages from different mailing lists, the r

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-14 Thread Matthieu Lemerre
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:34:38 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:35:22 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > > But the space bar removes the unread tag, so I do not see how it > > helps... By default, hitting the space bar throughout a thread would > > remove every tag from the th

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-14 Thread Michael Hudson
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is >boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to >add a tag, and then "a". If I forget about +, then my mail is >impossible to find.

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-14 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:35:22 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > But the space bar removes the unread tag, so I do not see how it > helps... By default, hitting the space bar throughout a thread would > remove every tag from the thread, so you keep asking "where was the mail > in my inbox that I have

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-14 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:07:03 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > This only works if you've already loaded notmuch, or you get error > messages about notmuch-search-mode-map not being known. How do you deal > with that or does it simply work for you? DOH, nothing that a (require 'notmuch) couldn't fix

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-14 Thread Matthieu Lemerre
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:13:26 -0500, Jameson Rollins wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:01:48 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > > Now when you consistently label all your mails, you just don't want to > > have unclassified mails. That is what we meant by "mail you can't find". > > It sounds like thi

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-14 Thread Jameson Rollins
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:07:03 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > This only works if you've already loaded notmuch, or you get error > messages about notmuch-search-mode-map not being known. How do you deal > with that or does it simply work for you? I have: (require 'notmuch) in my config file be

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-14 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:33:33 -0500, Jameson Rollins wrote: > I agree that the function currently bound to space bar is annoying. I > am actually in the middle of preparing a patch to fix this. I think > that space should just scroll through the open messages. I don't want > it to archive anythin

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-14 Thread Jameson Rollins
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:01:48 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > Now when you consistently label all your mails, you just don't want to > have unclassified mails. That is what we meant by "mail you can't find". It sounds like this would just as easily be accomplished with a way to search for all mes

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-14 Thread Matthieu Lemerre
> I think you guys may have a misunderstanding about how notmuch indexes > mail. Notmuch indexes multiple headers (To, From, Subject, Date) and > the *entire* body of the message. That's kind of the whole point. In > other words, messages don't have to have tags in order to be found. [...] N

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-13 Thread Jameson Rollins
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:43:38 +0100, Cédric Cabessa wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2010 16:23:58 Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > > - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is > >boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to > >add a tag, and then "a

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-13 Thread Cédric Cabessa
On Friday 12 November 2010 16:23:58 Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is >boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to >add a tag, and then "a". If I forget about +, then my mail is >impossible to find. I

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-13 Thread Darren McGuicken
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:05:58 +0100, Michal Sojka wrote: > I agree with you in that in many cases tags can be replaced by saved > searches. Last time I did it, i.e. used saved searches to distinguish > messages from different mailing lists, the result was that it took > very long time (something li

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-12 Thread Michal Sojka
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Darren McGuicken wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > > Here is first a patch that copes with this last point. Whenever you > > want to archive a thread, it finds whether you forgot to add a custom > > "user" tag to a message, and if so asks y

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-12 Thread David Edmondson
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:48:12 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > It is just a way to ensure that all your mails are properly filed, and > file them quickly. We should just add a hook that you can use, then. dme. -- David Edmondson, http://dme.org ___ not

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-12 Thread Matthieu Lemerre
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:05:23 +, David Edmondson wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > > - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is > >boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to > >add a tag, and then

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-12 Thread David Edmondson
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is >boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to >add a tag, and then "a". If I forget about +, then my mail is >impossible to find.

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-12 Thread Darren McGuicken
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:35:22 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > I prefer to add tags, for the following reasons: It sounds like we do much the same things with our mail except that your approach is quite disciplined and mine quite lazy :-) > - If I want to search through a mailing list, I don't h

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-12 Thread Matthieu Lemerre
Hi, Jamie. > > > - I often find myself hitting the spacebar too much, which ends up with > >some of my new messages being removed from all of their tags, which > >make them very difficult to find. I don't think the spacebar should > >remove the inbox tag at all. It should only chang

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-12 Thread Matthieu Lemerre
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:39:37 +, Darren McGuicken wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > > Here is first a patch that copes with this last point. Whenever you > > want to archive a thread, it finds whether you forgot to add a custom > > "user" tag to a message

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-12 Thread Darren McGuicken
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > Here is first a patch that copes with this last point. Whenever you > want to archive a thread, it finds whether you forgot to add a custom > "user" tag to a message, and if so asks you for a tag to add before > archiving. That way, I n

Re: [PATCH] How to improve the mail handling workflow?

2010-11-12 Thread Jameson Rollins
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre wrote: > The emacs interface to notmuch gets in my way in at least several > manners: Hi, Matthieu. Here are some of the things I've done to deal with similar issues: > - I often find myself hitting the spacebar too much, which ends up with