From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rmail threading Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:39:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h7fcnmq0.fsf@posteo.net> <87o89kw0hl.fsf@gnus.org> <0c369b25-aedd-1fdf-4813-503f27e42c7c@yandex.ru> <874kbbznwv.fsf@gmail.com> <8735qvwcqt.fsf@gmail.com> <20210828065708.GA29375@tuxteam.de> <83o89gl8ae.fsf@gnu.org> <834kb7kue8.fsf@gnu.org> <834kb5u6gj.fsf@gnu.org> <83a6kvpjdc.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17623"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 04 05:40:03 2021 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 1mMMXD-0004Ol-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 05:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53860 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMMXB-0005nG-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:40:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMMWI-0004kT-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMMWI-0002Bl-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMMWH-0006l4-E9; Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:39:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83a6kvpjdc.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 02 Sep 2021 09:43:59 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273832 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > This suggests we should have a convenient way to make multiple > > summaries of a single Rmail buffer, and keep them in parallel. > > What do you think of that? > That'd help, yes. Still, the need to switch between different summary > buffers is less convenient, IMO. If you find thread movement commands convenient, by all means add them. We are not forced to choose between summary generation and movement commands for handling of threads. What I said was, I'd like to use these threads via a summary. > > That would be a pain in the neck for me. I don't want to reorder > > RMAIL file. > Too bad. I have 7000 messages in the RMAIL file -- to reorder them would take a long time. And how would I restore the original order? How about creating a virtual reordering without actually moving the messages around in the buffer? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)