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 22:13:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r0y8m5jc.fsf@autistici.org> <97ea4e2f08a17bc0197c@heytings.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="18674"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andrea.monaco@autistici.org, eliz@gnu.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 Tue Nov 15 01:42:16 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 1ouk1o-0004br-BE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:42:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ouiqs-0003fo-1O; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:26:54 -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 1ouigh-0004wo-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:16:29 -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 1ouPuC-0007IP-Ao; Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:13:08 -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=2bGde/owZ8/xb5Dl51CPJKPU9NwlFIZfzW4jPTdpMxk=; b=q7jX4lU9lcMA roQu8BVopIZenyCXE2MWCAxTbaKE03L5guhAvtTpa1E4iIzEhO3cZZMCdJDNYbG4AWnmew03E9EIC zOrwiCNFQYwi0z8vz4pELYagHLpw2kF7VSmgavKd/UxMVdoOhBmQEjxox23Cfb/rzayrLsgEuyAzG gApO5tECjg6YbKvcipVbhScbPvrUVvN9qGVnoGCcGdwAiKJ3wTChlqATubsXq9BVL0prFkRwqbgre siKmf+WcBRi9HWLX9iURUTWR3y+gACUVWD8qyjlinctv7pZb7Uc4LhstaMMLaOJUWrS6ZOsRGtz5/ mMWjWRYbAXx5kZi7aZZtpA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ouPuC-00028S-1U; Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:13:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <97ea4e2f08a17bc0197c@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:13:15 +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:299799 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. ]]] > If I may, I would suggest something different: an option to query the user > how they want the rmail-summary-by-* command to be applied: on the entire > folder, to limit the existing summary, to extend the existing summary. The first of these three options is not useful -- to get that result, just type q before the command. So there would be only two that are needed: union and intersection. C-u would be a natural way to specify 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)