On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre <racin@free.fr> wrote: > The emacs interface to notmuch gets in my way in at least several > manners: Hi, Matthieu. Here are some of the things I've done to deal with similar issues: > - I often find myself hitting the spacebar too much, which ends up with > some of my new messages being removed from all of their tags, which > make them very difficult to find. I don't think the spacebar should > remove the inbox tag at all. It should only change the unread tag. I agree that the function currently bound to space bar is annoying. I am actually in the middle of preparing a patch to fix this. I think that space should just scroll through the open messages. I don't want it to archive anything, or pop out of the currently viewed thread. I think this function is too aggressive as is. > - It does not provide a command for deleting mails. We were several > people who provided patches to add a 'd' keybinding to support > deletion. I provided a complex patch for that (that added "and not > tag:deleted" to all requests", but I now think that just adding a > "deleted" tag and removing the "inbox" tag would be sufficient). I agree that some built-in support for handling "deleted" tags is called for, but in the mean time it's very easy to make your own custom functions to drop into your emacs config. I have the following: (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "d" (lambda () "delete thread and advance" (interactive) (notmuch-search-add-tag "deleted") (forward-line))) (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d" (lambda () "delete current message and advance" (interactive) (notmuch-show-add-tag "deleted") (notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop))) (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "u" (lambda () "undelete thread" (interactive) (notmuch-search-remove-tag "deleted"))) (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "u" (lambda () "undelete current message" (interactive) (notmuch-show-remove-tag "deleted"))) I do *not* think that adding the "deleted" tag should remove the inbox tag. If you want to view your inbox without seeing the deleted messages, then just use the search "tag:inbox and not tag:deleted". > - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is > boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to > add a tag, and then "a". If I forget about +, then my mail is > impossible to find. Again, I achieve archiving with some simple custom functions: (define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "a" (lambda () "archive thread and advance" (interactive) (notmuch-search-remove-tag "inbox") (notmuch-search-remove-tag "unread") (forward-line))) (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "a" (lambda () "archive current message and advance" (interactive) (notmuch-show-remove-tag "inbox") (notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop))) (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "i" (lambda () "add current message to inbox" (interactive) (notmuch-show-add-tag "inbox"))) jamie.