On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:49:43 -0400, Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> The function to advance through threads with the space bar is useful.
> However, the current implementation also archives messages.  The idea
> of archiving a message should not be intertwined with the processes of
> advancing through messages to read them.  Archiving in general should
> be a separate operation that one does explicitly.  This patch just
> renames the advance function "notmuch-show-advance", and removes the
> archiving of a thread when the end of the thread is reached.

The other piece of the magic space bar that people have complained about
is that it intertwines advancing among messages within one thread with
advancing from one thread to the next. (And only the first operation is
reversible by backspace.)

I think we'll probably want to change that at the same time.

Meanwhile, I'm currently working on support for piping a whole thread of
messages as an mbox to a process, (mostly getting bogged down in trying
to fix mbox support in git).

For that, I think I want the current '|' binding to pipe the current
message and then a new binding ("M-|" ?) to pipe every (open) message in
the thread.

Which makes me think that other operations should work similarly. '+'
and '-' should change tags on the current message (as they do currently)
and then new "M-+" and "M--" could change tags on all (open) messages in
the thread.

That would highlight the current 'a' as out of place since it's
currently archiving every message in the thread. So I'd then fix it to
be 'a' for the current message and "M-a" for every (open) message in the
thread.

What do people think of that?

-Carl