Re: [PATCH 3/4] emacs: Add pseudo saved search to match mail that no saved search matches

Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] emacs: Add pseudo saved search to match mail that no saved search matches

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:14:05 -0700

To: Jani Nikula, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jameson Graef Rollins


On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:31:31 +0000, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> Add a pseudo saved search that matches all the mail that no other saved
> search matches. Add new customization option notmuch-saved-searches-nomatch
> to enable and name the pseudo saved search.

Hi, Jani.  I haven't looked too closely at these patches yet, although
they seem to look ok at first glance.  However, I would like to argue
*against* using new customization variables for the names of certain
static saved searches.  For instance I don't see the point of the
"notmuch-saved-searches-nomatch" and "notmuch-tags-nomatch"
customization variables.  Do people *really* need to be able to
customize those names?  Why not just pick a sensible name and go with
it?

Customization is great, but if there's too much the code and
customization UI become overly cluttered and hard to parse.

jmho

jamie.
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