On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:01:45 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: > Now that Austin's excellent tag exclusion patch set [0] has been pushed, > the question remains if we want to support any delete-handling key > bindings in emacs. > > Based on the show-mode improvements I recently sent [1], the following > patch set implements thread and message delete keys. > > This is the last I'm going to comment on this issue. If we don't want > to support this, we should put together something on the wiki that > states we don't want to support it and that users should just bind it > themselves (with a nice explanation how), so that we can try to reduce > the number of future patches on the issue. > > Given the number of patches we've had on this issue, though, it's clear > that a lot of people expect this functionality, so we may want to > seriously consider supporting it. Given Austin's tag exclusion stuff, > and the fact that "deleted" tags are excluded by default, we now have > the functionality that Carl originally wanted to see, so it's not so > unreasonable to support this functionality anymore. I think it's reasonable to consider having key bindings (or other special handling) for pretty much *any* tags that are special to notmuch: inbox, unread, draft, flagged, etc. (An exhaustive list should be documented somewhere.) Looking at the source and history, I have to admit there has been intent, and code, to have support for "deleted" tag. See for example TODO or [1]. And I agree there has been demand for this. I say let's have this. But make it clear that "deleted" is just a tag; that the messages aren't going away, not by notmuch anyway. BR, Jani. [1] commit 2c262042ac174d7bc96d6035ab9c88bd0abe7f35