On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:50:15 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> Meanwhile, I'm currently working on support for piping a whole thread of
> messages as an mbox to a process, (mostly getting bogged down in trying
> to fix mbox support in git).
> 
> For that, I think I want the current '|' binding to pipe the current
> message and then a new binding ("M-|" ?) to pipe every (open) message in
> the thread.
> 
> Which makes me think that other operations should work similarly. '+'
> and '-' should change tags on the current message (as they do currently)
> and then new "M-+" and "M--" could change tags on all (open) messages in
> the thread.
> 
> That would highlight the current 'a' as out of place since it's
> currently archiving every message in the thread. So I'd then fix it to
> be 'a' for the current message and "M-a" for every (open) message in the
> thread.
> 
> What do people think of that?

I think it's definitely the right way to go.  I actually rebound my keys
to do that long ago.

jamie.