On Wednesday, 2019-04-10 at 13:52:25 +02, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes: > >> How? Don't I still have to hit one key? > > No, you just start writing at the end of the buffer, this area is then > marked as writable. Understood. >>> - No need to play with buffers to display both the thread and the composition. >> >> If a thread is any length, I will want to split the window to show older >> mail while I'm writing my comments at the bottom of the thread. So there >> might only be one buffer, but two windows, so I'm not sure of the >> benefit. > > True. But if the thread is not that long, or if we only want to look at > the last thread, then we don't need to. With a separate buffer, we > always have to play with the buffers to display them side by side, for instance. Yes. >> Well, this presumes a particular workflow and set of mail >> clients. Whether it's a good idea to top post without the bottom is >> debatable, I think. > > I'm confused: can it be top-posting if there is no citation? I was struggling to express myself :-) Perhaps “without any context” would be better. > Citations don't offer much guarantee in terms of data integrity. If > someone wants to read the previous message, they should open the > previous message, regardless of the workflow / client I think. > > All this can be made optional and configurable. Yes. My argument was not that we shouldn't have this, just that I wonder if it results in a good workflow for people who are not using notmuch/mu4e/gmail (or any other client that shares the same kind of thread view). dme. -- Leaves are falling all around, it's time I was on my way. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch