I'll think about putting together that patch, although I am going on vacation for a few weeks shortly, so it might not happen particularly soon. IME trying to use emacs without any window splitting is a bit of a lost cause, but maybe you're right that it's possible if you're /just/ using notmuch, so I'll work on that patch. - Nelson On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:29:42 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 2010 17:07:42 -0400, Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:47:24 -0700, "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@sspaethde> wrote: > > > On 2010-05-14, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > > > > I just tried this and one thing I did not like... > .. > > It's worth documenting. I'd prefer not to override it in notmuch-help, > > because it's important to me that it behave like other help functions in > > emacs. users could defadvice it or something if they really want. > > Hi Nelson, > > I appreciate your desire to make notmuch work more consistently for > experienced users of emacs. > > But this is a case where I think the emacs defaults are wrong for a new > user, (I'm imagining someone getting started with notmuch and that > otherwise doesn't use emacs regularly). > > For a user like this I think it's important for the notmuch emacs > interface to not do any window-splitting by default. Without any > splitting the new user is given a consistent experience, (notmuch often > opens new windows and the user can clear any window by pressing "q" and > seeing the previous window). > > But with window splitting, the user now needs to know a new command for > undoing the split, (such as C-x 1) or for switching between the windows > (such as C-x o). > > So for this particular feature, I want the default behavior to open the > help window just like any other notmuch window, (even though that > doesn't match what emacs typically does for help windows). Then the > "experienced" emacs suers can be given a configuration option to get the > desired behavior. > > Would you care to put together a patch to do that? > > -Carl > > -- > carl.d.worth@intel.com Non-text part: application/pgp-signature