Re: [VM] Any interest in trying to make local vs. IMAP folder treatment more seamless

2012-06-14 Thread Uday Reddy
r...@knighten.org writes: > Would you elaborate on this? I can guess what "fundamentally flawed in > its overdependence on key bindings" means but I expect my guess is acutally > wrong. Key bindings form the only customizable user interface in Emacs. (There are also menus, but they are still

Re: [VM] Any interest in trying to make local vs. IMAP folder treatment more seamless

2012-06-13 Thread rlk
Uday Reddy writes: > My principle is that key bindings are meant for frequently-used commands. > For others, the best option is to define aliases, e.g., > > (defalias 'imap 'vm-visit-imap-folder) > > I actually believe that the Emacs architecture is fundamentally flawed in > its overdep

Re: [VM] Any interest in trying to make local vs. IMAP folder treatment more seamless

2012-06-13 Thread Uday Reddy
blueman writes: > Unfortunately, vm itself is not just binding heavy but actually binding > dependent in that some key functions *only* seem to work when called > from a key binding rather than from M-x. I think this is true btw for > certain mark-related functions with next command uses marks. So

Re: [VM] Any interest in trying to make local vs. IMAP folder treatment more seamless

2012-06-13 Thread blueman
Uday Reddy writes: > My principle is that key bindings are meant for frequently-used commands. > For others, the best option is to define aliases, e.g., > > (defalias 'imap 'vm-visit-imap-folder) > > I actually believe that the Emacs architecture is fundamentally flawed in > its overdependence o

Re: [VM] Any interest in trying to make local vs. IMAP folder treatment more seamless

2012-06-13 Thread Uday Reddy
blueman writes: > For example, it would be nice to have a single vm-visit-any-folder > function which would visit local vs. IMAP folders depending on whether > there is a ':' (colon) in the name. > > For example: > 'foldername' = local folder 'foldername > ':foldername' = IMAP folder on d