From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Yates Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mu4e and tagging Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:12:56 +0100 Message-ID: References: <67813906-0ef4-481f-aab1-2218d5359fdf@googlegroups.com> <550bc8ef-bb44-43d7-8797-9d4b91c2429e@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438791206 30621 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2015 16:13:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 18:13:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN1Jf-0000Mj-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 18:13:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN1Jd-0004lT-Tc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN1JS-0004lM-4Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN1JL-00030D-QR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22b]:37544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN1JL-000309-Jo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: by wibhh20 with SMTP id hh20so31490900wib.0 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:12:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=references:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id :mime-version:content-type; bh=scYtzzjFpOp+udNus3HEzUo6HK1l7QArx7n7b4qARmU=; b=UEAU+JsVDkzm12YTErDTEnaDfRHe98+fF9yEgS4O1M5sIgyYU34l9dHv+xlRar081S /rj4LBV4FE5cYc7/VxmGr2NFhQzod2jL5vmblF+50YXJ+PM2Z//EVpbbJXex+x18aV94 sdGHQvZbANaTpnfGnKEKoDUYHz75KeWDekNVie3d5rUKjQQx/fgQfU0PInwcT/uRYxqf 62yAY6swH0V2hZ92FcLoaTNPT1mOHzdzU9PHWYzceGFBXkQ1tr8GUSHXXJPBMSNPVWXU z8NwmiTl71PKOE5aTm/G53Arc1AMupGonrfze7v//mInsncvk7J2PhkAtEuh7U1L3CJW /lug== X-Received: by 10.180.102.74 with SMTP id fm10mr16611wib.25.1438791178425; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (cpc13-leic14-2-0-cust169.8-1.cable.virginm.net. [86.24.148.170]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ck18sm4785887wjb.47.2015.08.05.09.12.57 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:12:57 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <550bc8ef-bb44-43d7-8797-9d4b91c2429e@default> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22b X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106258 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> > > Basically I have a number of email accounts and I want to >> > > apply a number of 'tags' to a message > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> > > (e.g. 'family', 'important', 'urgent' and so on). >> > > This let's me then find all 'important' emails very quickly. For this >> > > to work I need to apply multiple tags to a single email and apply the >> > > same tag to emails across the various accounts. >> > >> > Bookmarks with tags? >> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus#BookmarkTags >> >> Thanks Drew - I can't see how that fits into the workflow - are you >> suggesting each tag is a bookmark and then applying that bookmark >> to the relevant emails? > > You said you wanted to apply multiple tags to a given email message. > So you would bookmark a message, and apply whatever tags you wanted > to the bookmark. The bookmark gives you a way to tag the message. > > Anything you can bookmark you can tag (indirectly), by tagging the > bookmark. > > In addition to grouping by common tag (e.g., all `family' messages), > you can group bookmarks in multiple other ways (including bookmarking > a group of bookmarks!). Tags and other ways of grouping let you > organize things - any kind of things that you can bookmark. And you > can create new bookmark types for things that you cannot bookmark > out of the box. Ah I see, good old recursion. That makes sense now - thanks (I was previously looking for the hook between bookmarks and mu4e but I see now it is more general). Loving emacs, even if it is hurting my head a little.. ;-)