From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:06:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83r0y9q5j1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874jvaont2.fsf@autistici.org> <83r0ybs07r.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18974"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andrea.monaco@autistici.org, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 11 09:17:41 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1otPEK-0004k1-8X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:17:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otP3y-0000VX-Br; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 03:06:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otP3X-0000UU-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 03:06:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otP3V-0001vX-CW; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 03:06:29 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=osAVNagLaGPI156l6rDPj11gB+DxzncCJlfDbUl4YE0=; b=mQfrgIcnl+tS uJl38Z/uDA9LosLb3eKpYmrKg1vAnT/D38mDkkmTwCRt+9d3ff4naSjTUqFiWZAVijYVJg6vId0y5 PXqhTSB31ZgQjW7h5EBvqeTpTdmRg3kgDAWHZ+nSbesJMXISVrW9CUETT2uCs8O42vGT39ioOBSoa MQo4xbG2wAeSF7IoNgF5d2sf60igZU7YCPJmsTN8bM/eO1+GpzuQJJk7LwnkWg9cYAB1U3oKekIWz M59Q1d1ogqFUcy9FWi0bzgEzjc43xZHa2vIWAr+4S1foxaOJ67qq5/DexYvilTTOu3v/Wb+2pRgg2 N/6/8z5vyudZbV1ESgd5ew==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otP3R-0005mm-9q; Fri, 11 Nov 2022 03:06:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:36:15 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:299549 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: andrea.monaco@autistici.org, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:36:15 -0500 > > > Your guess is correct. I was struggling with finding a good > > description for this. What would you suggest as a good wording? > > Well, how about "Using a summary filtering command when a filtered > summary already exists"? > > It may not be the best possible wordin, but at least it's correct and > unambiguous. That's okay, thanks. But it's only the beginning of my problem. How do you describe the effect of applying a filter on top of one or more other filters? Andrea wants to use "intersection", but I tend to think this is too "mathematical" and too vague to explain clearly what happens. What would be a good terminology for that?