On Fri, May 09 2014, Mark Walters wrote:
>> Just to confirm: you can get your desired behaviour by writing an
>> alternative `notmuch-show-mark-read-function'?
>
> Yes I can confirm that. So if this went in I can get the behaviour of
> the earlier series without needing to patch notmuch.
>
> We can decide later if we want to include it (and other possible mark
> read functions) as an option, or as a contrib file, or just on the
> wiki.

I think that it would be convenient to include a function that
implements your preferred behaviour so that others can decide how they
would like it to behave.