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: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:57:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83zgcwoe1r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874jvaont2.fsf@autistici.org> <83r0ybs07r.fsf@gnu.org> <83r0y9q5j1.fsf@gnu.org> <9aa7db1076472a25a239@heytings.org> <838rkhpd5i.fsf@gnu.org> <9aa7db1076a7372250b9@heytings.org> <837d01p9qb.fsf@gnu.org> <9aa7db107669e89135ef@heytings.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="451"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, andrea.monaco@autistici.org, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 07:58:06 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 1otkSs-000ATY-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 07:58:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1otkST-0003ch-Um; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 01:57:41 -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 1otkSS-0003cS-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 01:57:40 -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 1otkSR-0002fo-Tl; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 01:57:39 -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=Nhpj6pw0YeOu0LvJTME+o5dZwMv0emLAYXfoqLjcm7g=; b=kGTyiyTpcKbT 5e9u14948rXoLVhktlCIFloMulNMvclXoeuHRCEVa7bsVBaqvLDrMMFwCPKPWqS/p7LFRZ0xTDzjO M2Sdyn7zTacjrMfm3LmntqkqwJLrLbITjTma8AWGRp9wDMhIe+svir5maVigWkR0vohr2mhZ/m8aL IDLxpS9YmcNkzmd23EjgaZEesQwdvHg9Ouwrbn8qTzoeDiESDj4B2s3fecMxhnHYxgUK0ZAxp7EwC lh+mHIepNfaCebEkgADtoFjRCThfw6JgvSNLu8ZeKZJQNZBShOipVkeNAB1H46P3BLuMVLklmQiaD 48UI/LUjqU8ONBEkcU5hRw==; 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 1otkSK-0008Mv-1C; Sat, 12 Nov 2022 01:57:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9aa7db107669e89135ef@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:50:10 +0000) 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:299616 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:50:10 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: rms@gnu.org, andrea.monaco@autistici.org, rpluim@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > >> Yes, my point was to mention the two less mathematical words: > >> broadening and narrowing. > > > > Narrowing is already being used, but it needs explanation, being a > > general notion. I was looking for a single word or max 2 words, > > > > This subtread is about rmail-summary-apply-filters-consecutively, right? No, it's about the name of the variable and the first sentence of its doc string. The rest is easy and not an issue. > If non-nil, apply Rmail summary commands on the already existing > filtering. "Filtering" is the wrong word here, since we are talking about Rmail summaries. Also, this is not about applying summary commands, this is about generating the summary itself. > >> That being said, I don't user Rmail but I don't think it obvious that > >> filtering is always "intersection". Someone may filter their inbox to > >> see mails from Alice, and add mails from Alice to the filtering. > > > > You could read about it in the manual. It doesn't make a lot of sense > > to suggest terminology for features you are not familiar with. > > > > Well, the fact that I don't use Rmail doesn't mean that I'm not familiar > with that feature, which exists in other MUAs. If you think about this as "filtering", then you have different features in mind, not the ones discussed here.