From: Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@grubix.eu>,
Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: announce: my fork of alot
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 11:02:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <162124212463.29687.7249370307418570737@lain.red.khirnov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <162118943864.470262.9109053349416524142@piu>
Quoting Patrick Totzke (2021-05-16 20:23:58)
> Quoting Anton Khirnov (2021-05-16 18:47:24)
> > - switching to split-window layout for thread view made it simpler to
> > implement quote folding, but also made sense to me since I never want
> > to see more than one message at once;
> > again, someone who prefers collapsing messages would see this as loss
> > of functionality
> >
> > https://xkcd.com/1172/ is very much in effect
>
> This could have been easily introduced as a separate type of buffer to keep both variants
> without breaking things.
I don't think it's that simple. Having two buffers for viewing threads
means:
- both of them now have to be maintained
- keeping feature parity between them would be nontrivial
- not keeping feature parity would be confusing for the users
It can easily lead to an unmaintainable mess and madness.
Will reply to other bits of this email later.
--
Anton Khirnov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-17 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-16 10:19 announce: my fork of alot Anton Khirnov
2021-05-16 11:15 ` Michael J Gruber
2021-05-16 14:42 ` Anton Khirnov
2021-05-16 15:41 ` Patrick Totzke
2021-05-16 17:47 ` Anton Khirnov
2021-05-16 18:23 ` Patrick Totzke
2021-05-17 7:08 ` Patrick Totzke
2021-05-17 7:33 ` Michael J Gruber
2021-05-17 7:54 ` Michael J Gruber
2021-05-17 8:25 ` Anton Khirnov
2021-05-17 8:19 ` Anton Khirnov
2021-05-17 8:28 ` Patrick Totzke
2021-05-17 8:39 ` Anton Khirnov
2021-05-17 9:02 ` Anton Khirnov [this message]
2021-05-16 22:09 ` Johannes Larsen
2021-05-16 22:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-16 23:13 ` Johannes Larsen
2021-05-17 0:23 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 8:54 ` Anton Khirnov
2021-05-17 12:32 ` Johannes Larsen
2021-05-17 12:55 ` Anton Khirnov
2021-05-17 19:03 ` Johannes Larsen
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