David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> I am indeed using the default. I think you forgot the screen 
> shot. 


indeed. Attached to this email.


>> I can still get rid of indentation if you confirm you don't 
>> want  it. 
> 
> I think so, although to be honest I never tried imenu before 
> testing your patches, perhaps we should wait for other opinions. 


I advise you to install counsel at least for that (I don't use it 
for anything else).


>> You also say the information on the header line is not very 
>> helpful. Do you have any other suggestion? I'm open to trying 
>> several different alternatives and see what people prefer. 
> 
> I guess I don't really understand how the matching is supposed 
> to work. If the user has to type from the beginning of the index 
> string, then I guess putting either the date or the subject 
> first might be helpful.


That depends on the frontend. For example, with counsel-imenu, I 
can type "attach" to filter by emails in the thread with the 
attachment tag.


> It's probably true that there is no one good order for all 
> threads. Some threads change subject often, others author, and 
> one I'm looking at right now has 25 messages with two authors 
> and one subject. 


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