Re: Flat search and threaded views

Subject: Re: Flat search and threaded views

Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:33:19 -0700

To: Yuri D'Elia, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Matt Armstrong


Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> writes:

> For example, for a query like "tag:unread AND date:24h..now", I'm shown
> all threads containing unread messages within the last day, which is
> perfect. But when I select a thread (with RET), I'm shown the thread
> from the start.

Yuri, I see you're running into issues similar to what I raised today in
id:qf57fbw4fx4.fsf@marmstrong-linux.kir.corp.google.com

So far I think notmuch attemps to give you a useful
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM default behavior with respect to how
it handles threads, but both you and I find it to be surprising or even
undesirable in certain situations.

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