* [emacs] message list view
@ 2018-12-11 15:20 David Bremner
2018-12-11 15:35 ` David Edmondson
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From: David Bremner @ 2018-12-11 15:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: notmuch
Discussion on #notmuch the other day led me to wonder how useful a
"message list" view would be. Essentially this would display a single
line summary for individual messages matching a query and allow
e.g. tagging operations or "opening" the message to get a more complete
view.
I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble of maintaining another view. I
think that "notmuch show --entire-thread=false --body=false
--format=sexp" is enough for the CLI backend.
d
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* Re: [emacs] message list view
2018-12-11 15:20 [emacs] message list view David Bremner
@ 2018-12-11 15:35 ` David Edmondson
2018-12-11 15:59 ` David Bremner
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Edmondson @ 2018-12-11 15:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Bremner, notmuch
On Tuesday, 2018-12-11 at 11:20:55 -04, David Bremner wrote:
> Discussion on #notmuch the other day led me to wonder how useful a
> "message list" view would be. Essentially this would display a single
> line summary for individual messages matching a query and allow
> e.g. tagging operations or "opening" the message to get a more complete
> view.
Doesn't tree view get you this?
dme.
--
You bring light in.
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* Re: [emacs] message list view
2018-12-11 15:35 ` David Edmondson
@ 2018-12-11 15:59 ` David Bremner
2018-12-11 21:54 ` Jeff Templon
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Bremner @ 2018-12-11 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Edmondson, notmuch
David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
> On Tuesday, 2018-12-11 at 11:20:55 -04, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> Discussion on #notmuch the other day led me to wonder how useful a
>> "message list" view would be. Essentially this would display a single
>> line summary for individual messages matching a query and allow
>> e.g. tagging operations or "opening" the message to get a more complete
>> view.
>
> Doesn't tree view get you this?
>
> dme.
Not exactly in the case where a query matches only a small number of messages in
a thread. But it might be better than nothing (and has the bonus of
existing ;)
d
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* Re: [emacs] message list view
2018-12-11 15:59 ` David Bremner
@ 2018-12-11 21:54 ` Jeff Templon
2018-12-12 9:58 ` Mark Walters
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From: Jeff Templon @ 2018-12-11 21:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Bremner, David Edmondson, notmuch
Hi,
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
>
>> On Tuesday, 2018-12-11 at 11:20:55 -04, David Bremner wrote:
>>
>>> Discussion on #notmuch the other day led me to wonder how useful a
>>> "message list" view would be. Essentially this would display a single
>>> line summary for individual messages matching a query and allow
>>> e.g. tagging operations or "opening" the message to get a more complete
>>> view.
I think it'd be useful. I'll give you an example that always bugs me:
if I look in "unread" (the standard startup screen search) and see some
new message in a long thread of which I've deleted a bunch of messages,
and I type 'd' to delete, it actually first undeletes (or to be precise,
it toggles the already-present deleted tag on) all the already-deleted
messages in the thread, then I have to hit 'd' again to delete all of
them.
If it were a message view instead of a thread view, I could just delete
the dang message ;-)
JT
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* Re: [emacs] message list view
2018-12-11 21:54 ` Jeff Templon
@ 2018-12-12 9:58 ` Mark Walters
2018-12-12 13:48 ` David Bremner
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From: Mark Walters @ 2018-12-12 9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff Templon, David Bremner, David Edmondson, notmuch
Dear All
I think this could be very useful -- indeed I currently have been running some scruffy patches implementing this for the last couple of months.
What I have done is modify notmuch-show.c so that you can pass a --unthreaded option and it returns each message as if it were a thread on its own. Then notmuch-tree basically "just works" with this output.
The reason I like it was I found I was sometimes missing messages when multiple messages arrived in the same thread.
I haven't tried Bremner's suggestion of just not passing entire-thread; it would give a slightly odd ordering of the messages (all matching messages by thread, and in thread order) rather than just date order.
My patches are against a rather outdated version of notmuch but I can probably update and post relatively easily if people would like to try it.
Best wishes
Mark
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Jeff Templon <templon@nikhef.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
>> David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, 2018-12-11 at 11:20:55 -04, David Bremner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Discussion on #notmuch the other day led me to wonder how useful a
>>>> "message list" view would be. Essentially this would display a single
>>>> line summary for individual messages matching a query and allow
>>>> e.g. tagging operations or "opening" the message to get a more complete
>>>> view.
>
>
> I think it'd be useful. I'll give you an example that always bugs me:
> if I look in "unread" (the standard startup screen search) and see some
> new message in a long thread of which I've deleted a bunch of messages,
> and I type 'd' to delete, it actually first undeletes (or to be precise,
> it toggles the already-present deleted tag on) all the already-deleted
> messages in the thread, then I have to hit 'd' again to delete all of
> them.
>
> If it were a message view instead of a thread view, I could just delete
> the dang message ;-)
>
> JT
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* Re: [emacs] message list view
2018-12-12 9:58 ` Mark Walters
@ 2018-12-12 13:48 ` David Bremner
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From: David Bremner @ 2018-12-12 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mark Walters, Jeff Templon, David Edmondson, notmuch
Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:
> I haven't tried Bremner's suggestion of just not passing
> entire-thread; it would give a slightly odd ordering of the messages
> (all matching messages by thread, and in thread order) rather than
> just date order.
>
I hadn't realized that --no-entire-thread still preserved thread
order. Is that actually useful/used? Maybe it would make more sense to
change that order than to add another option.
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