On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:32:04 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> So in summary, if you would like to "delete" messages, you can:
>
> * add a key binding to emacs (or your favorite ui) to add a "deleted"
> tag to messages that you want to delete:
>
> (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"
> (lambda ()
> (interactive)
> (notmuch-show-tag-message "+deleted")))
Thank you for this. I had tried to reroll your patches
(id:"1326826969-23545-1-git-send-email-jrollins@finestructure.net") on
top of 0.12 and that was a miserable failure, so the above works
well. In fact, I have made it like this instead:
(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"
(lambda ()
(interactive)
(notmuch-show-tag-message "+deleted")
(notmuch-show-next-open-message)))
... but it doesn't seem to actually go to the next message... oh well,
at least I can delete mail.
Also note that you can delete whole threads with this:
(define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "d"
(lambda ()
(interactive)
(notmuch-search-tag-thread "+deleted")
(notmuch-search-next-thread)))
... and I have added an undelete function:
(define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "u"
(lambda ()
(interactive)
(notmuch-search-tag-thread "-deleted")
(notmuch-search-next-thread)))
> * and if you really want them purged from disk, delete them manually
> with:
>
> notmuch search --output=files tag:deleted | xargs -l rm
I use this script:
Finally, I want to voice that I feel a "delete" key, even if it doesn't
delete mails, seems like an important part of a mail user
agent. Archiving mail is one thing, but for the love and respect of
sysadmins and the infrastructure they maintain, please consider adding
at least a way to *tag* those deleted emails.
Having the above keys being defined as standard in notmuch don't seem
like much to ask.
This may be a dissenting view here, but your mail is not that
important. :P
Cheers,
A.
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