Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes: > On Tue, Nov 08 2022, Alexander Adolf wrote: > >> Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> writes: >> >>> A feature I miss from Gnus is being able to reply to multiple emails at >>> once. Has anyone else found to be a missing feature? >> >> I have, and support your request. >> >> But not only to reply, but more generally to act on (tag, reply, >> forward) multiple emails. >> >> Of course I can select multiple _contiguous_ lines in a search result >> list, or tree view, and do something with these messages >> (`notmuch-search-tag` being an obvious example). But not when my >> selection is (or would be) non-contiguous. >> >>> I wonder if it would be easy to add to notmuch's Emacs MUA. >>> [...] >>> Problem is, I can't think of an unobtrusive way to add this to notmuch >>> without adding a lot of machinery. >> >> Perhaps the problem can be split into smaller pieces? >> >> I think one piece could be to enable the user to select multiple regions >> (think e.g. zones.el [1]), which could be a problem entirely separate >> from notmuch.el? >> >> [1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Zones >> >> The second piece could be to extend notmuch.el to make use of multiple >> regions, and implement more functions that act on such regions. Since >> there doesn't seem to be a "standard way" of doing non-contiguous >> regions in Emacs, one third-party "multi-region package" (e.g. zones.el) >> would need to be picked, and notmuch.el made to detect it's availability >> and make use of it. > > In notmuch-tree at least, this can be implemented, i think, in a much > simpler way. There (and i guess in any other search list), every line > in the buffer represents a message, and there is already a record (as > text properties) describing the message (its id, subject, tags, > filename, even indentation level in my outline extension). It'd be > pretty easy to add a new "marked" flag to those properties, that could > be added by a simple key shortcut in the same way Gnus does (adding on > top of that addition of contiguous messages in a region is again > trivial). It's also not much more complicated to add things like > "select all messages in this thread". With that selection mechanism in > place, one could at any moment ask for the list of marked messages and > their properties, which contain all the information needed to perform > operations such as replies or tagging (the latter being much easier to > implement; the part about multiple replies needs a bit more work, but > possibly one could re-use whatever functions gnus is already providing > to compose the reply buffer--notmuch already uses some of those > facilities). FTR, David Bremner suggested a workaround along those lines in id:87o7z31iwp.fsf@tethera.net (email from Wed, 08 Jun 2022 08:41:58 -0300) _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-leave@notmuchmail.org