From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, andrea.monaco@autistici.org, rpluim@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:52:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9aa7db1076a7372250b9@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838rkhpd5i.fsf@gnu.org>
>>> 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?
>>
>> I think there are two possibilities when adding another filter: either
>> broadening the already existing filtering ("union" in mathematical
>> terms) or narrowing the already existing filtering ("intersection" in
>> mathematical terms).
>
> It's what you call "intersection", obviously.
>
Yes, my point was to mention the two less mathematical words: broadening
and narrowing.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-11 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-05 18:31 Summary by thread in rmail Andrea Monaco
2022-10-05 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-05 23:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-06 22:04 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-07 10:17 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-07 11:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-09 20:33 ` [PATCH] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively (was: Summary by thread in rmail) Andrea Monaco
2022-10-10 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-10 8:38 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-10 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 7:16 ` [PATCH v2] " Andrea Monaco
2022-10-11 8:13 ` [PATCH v2] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively Robert Pluim
2022-10-12 9:35 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-12 11:03 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-12 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 18:13 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-12 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 22:02 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-19 14:23 ` [PATCH v3] " Andrea Monaco
2022-10-19 14:55 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-20 15:45 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-20 16:02 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-20 19:00 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-21 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-21 19:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-27 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 15:22 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-28 13:26 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-06 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-07 14:13 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-08 5:02 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-08 8:04 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-14 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-10 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-10 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 8:53 ` Robert Pluim
2022-11-11 4:36 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 14:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-11-11 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 17:32 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-11 18:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-11 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 18:52 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2022-11-11 18:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-11 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 20:50 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-12 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-12 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 16:30 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-12 17:44 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-12 18:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-14 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-14 8:39 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-15 4:18 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-15 9:56 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-16 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-16 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-24 18:25 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-28 21:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-15 17:00 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-14 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-15 9:35 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-16 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-19 14:47 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-20 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-20 19:36 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-22 12:14 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-22 12:58 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-28 21:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-23 20:57 ` chad
2022-11-24 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-28 21:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-26 0:51 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11 18:22 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-12 3:35 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-12 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-14 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-17 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 13:58 ` [PATCH v2] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively (was: Summary by thread in rmail) Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-10 22:03 ` [PATCH] " Richard Stallman
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