Hi David, On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:48:49 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:59:12 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: > > Since message-ids necessarily match just a single message, there's no > > reason to do a search for the id before viewing the actual message; > > the search just becomes an extra screen to click through. Clicking on > > an id: links now just jumps straight to the message itself. > > It's often useful to see a message in context, particularly as it's > common for people to reference id:'s when referring to a thread (thread: > is instance local, as I recall). > > Is there a simple way from `notmuch-show' to jump out to the result of > `notmuch-search' for the current id:? Maybe we could bind ^ to something > like `notmuch-show-in-context'. Why not use a prefix argument to do different thing: C-u RET -> show in context RET -> show single message WDYT ? /Xavier