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: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:13:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874jvaont2.fsf@autistici.org> <83r0ybs07r.fsf@gnu.org> <83r0y9q5j1.fsf@gnu.org> <83v8nkobqg.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="22451"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andrea.monaco@autistici.org, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 15 00:50:39 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 1oujDr-0005dd-DC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:50:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ouiqV-0003Ap-Ty; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:26:31 -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 1ouih8-0004xE-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:16:51 -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 1ouPuB-0007I9-R5; Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:13:03 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=UTywml7dRgRsvbbCAuET3K0vP4xr8tvbF5F43r8CqsE=; b=VIPwsMkgnaXC CSDG/XIZU+Q+S4PJY/J2bXNrORmF+wjJoZuVEAmEL84Xatm19DtYvdHj9F+nTg3SpKUiPQNVf9y4g zhVjCfR8h/a15B9z8N+UqY8xNqX3iMCOwivPKr8cyWkV1BIOyOIl4iBuzEC8lXLdA7i/P4KmrX/XH wpiogiAs0voK2KwNJwoir0IKFmoztRDL+gwScWhi1cBXypV9glVURnvh1OJZmXOXCkCANMLmNj7h9 JggBoskvycVf+Idve6mODKtTaxB9sGvn3A6TzB7mVhQ2/tUZyOHczPnqH8a24ZEPmDbkYDCKi2b30 xQ99L3By+mtfkUuJy2A0Gw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ouPuB-00028B-Hc; Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:13:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83v8nkobqg.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 12 Nov 2022 09:47:35 +0200) 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:299777 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. ]]] > Before we embark on such a massive documentation change, I'd like to > try to find a less invasive change of terminology, if that exists. Do > you see a way to do that? I would not object to changing the existing Rmail partial-summary commands to use the term "filtered" if that makes the whole of Rmail summaries clearer. > Anyway, unless I misunderstand something, the "summary" in Rmail is called > the message "index" or "list" by other MUAs. "List" in the context of Emacs will tend to cause confusion. "Index" might be ok to switch to. Does anyone see a possible confusion in use of "index" here? > How about "progressive summary"? or maybe "progressively narrowing > summary"? If it is ok to use the term "narrowing" for this. "progressively narrowing" would make sense. It could also be "progressive filtering". > Is "limit" perhaps a > better word? I think "limit" is not helpful here. That's because "progressively limiting" is not a clear way to decribe this. -- 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)