* emacs tree view usability improvement: notmuch-tree should indicate which message is being shown
@ 2019-02-11 18:34 Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor @ 2019-02-11 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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hi all--
TIL about tree-view -- pressing 'Z' from a "notmuch-show" buffer is very
nice, thanks to all who worked on this feature.
I have a small usability improvement to ask for, sorry that my elisp is
too weak to propose a patch.
when i've hit Z, i get a split emacs view with two buffers -- one is the
"notmuch-tree" buffer, and the other is a "notmuch-show" buffer.
when i hit enter on a point inside the notmuch-tree buffer, the
notmuch-show buffer's contents change.
It would be great if the notmuch-tree buffer would maintain a specific
marker indicating which message is being shown. As it stands, the
highlighted row in notmuch-tree can change if i move where the point is,
but don't hit enter -- so one message in notmuch-tree is highlighted,
but a different message in displayed in notmuch-show.
There are hints that they don't match already, of course -- the metadata
about each message is likely to be different, and an astute reader can
catch it.
Avoiding the confusion entirely by having a distinct indicator of the
shown message (e.g. maybe a "─►" to the left of the line corresponding
to the message in notmuch-tree) would be pretty nice.
--dkg
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