On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:27:52 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> wrote:
> The decision, if I remember correctly, was that regions are so intuitive
> for emacs users, and many people reported trying to tag by region
> without thinking about it, that this approach would make sense for the
> emacs interface. In other words, keep the emacs interface emacsy. I
> think I still agree with that, since I feel like having both would be
> confusing (what do you do when you select a marked-line in a region?)
> and I like the one I tend toward intuitively. But I certainly see the
> benefit of the other functionality as well.

I should mention that in my experience it's usually not that hard to
construct searches (or filters on searches) that pair down to just the
messages you want to tag, in which case you can just tag the entire
buffer.

jamie.