Re: [PATCH] emacs: Make the queries used in the all-tags section

[Daniel Schoepe <daniel.schoepe@googlemail.com>]

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On Wed, 25 May 2011 18:42:30 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote:
> 'Doh.  That's what I get for not reading the surrounding code.  I
> misunderstood what your patch was going for and assumed it was what
> *I* wanted notmuch to do, which is to show me useful counts (e.g.,
> unread count), but not to change the underlying query.  ]:--8)

I thought about that too, but figured it should be rather rare that
someone wants only a portion of some messages _counted_, but all
displayed when clicking on the search next to the count.

I'm somewhat indifferent, since I rarely use those links
directly, so any more opinions on this are very much appreciated.

> So, to me, it seems like this turns the all tags section into another
> saved searches section, just with a slight twist, and makes me wonder
> if there's a better way to reconcile these.

Well, it already was sort of a non-configurable saved searches section
before, so I didn't really turn it into one. :)

Since the main difference between those sections is the clear visual
distinction, it might be an option to provide the user with functions to
easily declare new sections for the hello screen, where this sort of
thing is configurable. (One possible use that comes to mind would be to
group tags into different categories.)

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