From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7556DE2BA6 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:42:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.001 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.010, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id P3Ca3RPJnyWK for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7C926DE2B2D for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dXPuf-0004eC-0f; Tue, 18 Jul 2017 06:39:33 -0400 Received: (nullmailer pid 11786 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:42:51 -0000 From: David Bremner To: Sanjoy Mahajan , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: all intermediate drafts appear in threads (v0.24.2, Emacs 25.2) In-Reply-To: <877ezcbdvk.fsf@olin.edu> References: <877ezcbdvk.fsf@olin.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 07:42:51 -0300 Message-ID: <87h8yaauvo.fsf@tethera.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:42:55 -0000 Sanjoy Mahajan writes: > I save an outgoing email as I write it and often (as if it were a > regular document) by using the usual Emacs key sequence C-x C-s. With > notmuch v0.24, notmuch saves a proper draft each time I use C-x C-s. > The result is a million drafts, which may be good. > > However, it means that the thread view (in notmuch-show mode) includes > the zillion drafts. Attached is a screenshot of what I mean (sorry that > it is so small -- I downsampled it to get within the message-size > limit). I made the example by sending myself (sanjoy@localhost) a short > msg. Then I replied to it with 'r', and saved the reply a few times > (first with "Draft v1" as the body text, the next time with "Draft v2", > etc.). It could be a nice feature to toggle visibility of drafts (and other excluded messages) in notmuch-show mode. So far nobody wrote such a thing. Two things you might find useful to know: - you can resume editing a previous draft with 'e' - autosaving does not create drafts If it really bugs you, you could override the binding C-x C-s in notmuch-show mode.