Re: [PATCH] emacs: Add `notmuch-show-elide-same-subject', controlling the appearance of collapsed messages in notmuch-show mode.

Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Add `notmuch-show-elide-same-subject', controlling the appearance of collapsed messages in notmuch-show mode.

Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:51:52 -0700

To: David Edmondson, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Carl Worth


On Fri,  5 Nov 2010 09:50:15 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> If `notmuch-show-elide-same-subject' is set to `t' then collapsed
> messages do not show a "Subject:" line if the subject is the same as
> that of the previous message.

Sounds cool. Thanks! (Will test and merge later.)

> +(defcustom notmuch-show-elide-same-subject nil
> +  "Do not show the subject of a collapsed message if it is the
> +same as that of the previous message."

There seems to be a compulsion on the part of some patch submitters to
not change the status quo of the interface. Let's stop doing that
please. Almost all new features that are proposed are strict
improvements, and as such they should be enabled by default, (and
perhaps even unconditional in some cases).

I really want to avoid the situation of "Oh, default notmuch-emacs is a
piece of junk---but if you tune a dozen knobs in the configuration, then
it starts to work well".

So lets start turning more improvements on by default.

Thanks,

-Carl

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carl.d.worth@intel.com
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