Jani Nikula wrote: > > Hmm. Let's look at this from another perspective: do you know if there's > a reasonable way to make ordering of the customized saved searches > easier? It's not exactly user friendly to move items up and down in the > list. Or to sort them. > > On the other hand, the tags are sorted. Saved searches are not. Should > it be possible to display tags in user defined order...? > > I know I can twist this the way I want and carry my own modifications, > but I'd like to make notmuch user friendly for people who don't know > elisp. > My two cents on this, as someone who uses notmuch as a Gmail-alike for non-Gmail email: I keep my saved searches in a particular order, kind of emulating the Gmail sidebar: unread, inbox, sent, all mail. Putting these in alphabetical order either direction would not achieve the goal of having the most used/important saved searches first (i.e. I hardly ever use all mail, so it shouldn't be first in the list). The tags list, on the other hand, I like having sorted to make tags easy to find. It has a different purpose than saved searches for me, so its behavior is different. I think having an option to sort the saved searches is a fine idea. The Emacs Way would probably be to have an option for the sort order that takes the name of a function, which is called to sort the searches. My first thought is that this isn't very user-friendly. But, thinking about it a bit more, if the default causes the searches to be sorted alphabetically, and setting the value to nil causes them not to be sorted, then it's user-friendly for the two most common cases, and still 100% customizable for those who want different sort orders. ----- -- Adam Wolfe Gordon -- View this message in context: http://notmuch.198994.n3.nabble.com/PATCH-emacs-Sort-saved-searches-tp3304068p3313863.html Sent from the notmuch mailing list archive at Nabble.com.