Quoth Tomi Ollila on Feb 19 at 11:43 am: > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:22:10 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote: > > Based on the thread at id:"20120213152858.GO27039@mit.edu" it seems > > like people want show refresh to retain message state by default (I > > certainly do), rather than reset it by default. As a nice bonus, this > > fixes a broken test. > > Hmm > > Every '=' keypress in a thread removes 'unread' tag from next unread > message :o Oh dear. It's slightly subtler than that, though. Refreshing will remove the unread tag from the first message matching the query. (I suspect you had tag:unread in your query?) This is particularly confusing for state-retaining refresh because that message might not even be open. > That is probably desirable feature when refreshing view without > retaining state. Also, probably notmuch-show-refresh-view should > be fixed not to mark next message unread when retaining state ? I would argue that refresh should never have side-effects, so neither case should mark anything read. I'll send a v2.