From: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>
To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Dangerous space bar key (was: Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot)
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:17:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vs9g59e.fsf@servo.factory.finestructure.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110707205808.GF18563@mit.edu>
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:58:08 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> What I'm suggesting is no more or less automatic than the current
> behavior. It's just a slight tweak to the order in which things
> happen: that SPC could remove the unread tag and then move to the next
> message, rather than the other way around. In effect, the read tag
> would indicate that you've seen the bottom of the message, not just
> the top.
But as it stands now, the unread tag automatically goes away as soon as
view the message when selected from notmuch-search. Under the new
proposal I would have to hit SPC to remove the unread tag, even if the
whole message was already visible. It would still require more work.
> It's also possible I would have less trouble if SPC didn't
> automatically go to the next thread. The problem I have with the
> current behavior is that I often find myself accidentally marking
> messages as read because notmuch showed me a message I wasn't
> expecting. This is compounded by the lack of visual feedback when
> this happens (e.g., the search results don't update to indicate that
> anything has changed, and even if they did, I probably wouldn't notice
> that the message *had* been unread).
I really think the problem is the current behavior of SPC. As I and a
couple of others have already mentioned, it just not a good, intuitive
default behavior. I suggested what I think is a much better behavior in
a previous message [0].
jamie.
[0] id:"87pqlpioew.fsf@servo.factory.finestructure.net"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-07 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-29 19:42 Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot Robin Green
2011-06-29 20:37 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-06-29 22:40 ` Carl Worth
2011-06-30 3:04 ` Brian May
2011-06-30 4:10 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-06-30 5:40 ` Carl Worth
2011-06-30 7:45 ` Pieter Praet
2011-06-30 21:26 ` Michael Hudson-Doyle
2011-07-01 16:37 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-07-01 17:17 ` Austin Clements
2011-07-01 17:11 ` Pieter Praet
2011-06-30 23:02 ` Stewart Smith
2011-06-30 6:29 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2011-07-04 20:09 ` Michal Sojka
2011-07-04 21:36 ` Dangerous space bar key (was: Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot) Matthieu Lemerre
2011-07-05 0:03 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-07-05 20:23 ` Matthieu Lemerre
2011-07-06 13:25 ` Austin Clements
2011-07-07 18:49 ` Matthieu Lemerre
2011-07-07 20:40 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-07-07 20:58 ` Austin Clements
2011-07-07 21:17 ` Jameson Graef Rollins [this message]
2011-07-09 17:09 ` Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot Neeum Zawan
2011-07-09 20:32 ` Daniel Schoepe
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