On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, I cannot find enough information online about what any of > these functions do, or what the concept of "archiving" means. From > reading some of the sources in notmuch-tree.el I found out that > archiving a message results in "applying the tag changes in > `notmuch-archive-tags' to it" but I am not sure what this means. Archiving, by default, simply means removing the inbox tag, either from a single message or from all messages in a thread. You can use notmuch-archive-tags to configure the tag change actions if you like. > I found out that the key bindings are in that same file, which assigns > "a" to notmuch-tree-archive-message-then-next; when I press "a" in my > inbox view (all messages tagged "inbox"), it appears to just remove the > "inbox" tag. I have some questions: > > (1) What is the point of archiving (what problem does it solve)? Remove the messages from your inbox search. (At least I prefer to keep this distinct from removing the unread tag; I archive tons of messages without reading, and I have some messages with inbox tag that I've already read.) > (2) Do any other things happen to such archived messages, apart from the > tag being removed? No. Optionally, you can configure notmuch-archive-tags to remove more or other tags, or add tags. > (3) How do I un-archive these messages, if I press the "a" key by > accident? Find the message, hit "k k a". ("k" enters a submenu for doing customizable tagging operations quickly, "k k" does the reverse operation.) BR, Jani. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch