Re: another attempt to add delete functionality in emacs

Subject: Re: another attempt to add delete functionality in emacs

Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:01:32 -0400

To: David Edmondson, Jameson Graef Rollins, Notmuch Mail

Cc:

From: David Bremner


On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:47:23 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> On Sat,  7 Jan 2012 14:28:10 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> > I try to address the concerns that have come up in previous attempts.
> > In particular, I include a patch that creates a new customization
> > variable, notmuch-search-exclude-deleted, that will exclude any
> > messages with the "deleted" tag from searches.  

[snip]

> I honestly don't understand the reason for this. If someone wants to not
> see messages that they have tagged as 'deleted', they add 'and not
> tag:deleted' to the end of the search expression.

Just thinking out loud here, but it does seem a bit unfortunate to me
that it represents a pretty fundamental divergence between the CLI and
the emacs interface. Mind you, I guess one could make the same argument
about the libs versus the CLI. Lack of configuration information in the
library (possibly among other reasons) makes this not too nice to
support in the current library either.

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