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From: Daniel Schoepe <daniel@schoepe.org>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>,
	Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] emacs: Pass a copy to notmuch-saved-search-sort-function
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:08:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5rekb6w.fsf@schoepe.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB+hUn-iQbXq_UDcj97h2Duq=gJdxpiJjOn6YzmVcZw+GEgK0A@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mar 5, 2012 5:43 PM, "Dmitry Kurochkin" <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com>
> I do not buy the argument that we should help users who implement their
> own sorting functions but do not read documentation for functions they
> use.  Apparently, those who implemented the `sort' function had similar
> ideas.  And I do not think it is our job to add workarounds for it.

Yeah that also sounds a bit more consistent, I guess my perception was
colored by my surprise at learning that sort has side effects in elisp. :)

On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 22:55:54 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> Providing the customization of the sort function is more powerful than the
> compare function. In the case of saved searches I can imagine people might
> want to partially use the original order while sort the rest (e.g.
> important ones first in predefined order, others sorted). In fact this also
> allows dropping out some elements. And renaming. And changing the queries...
> 
> (I had something like that in mind originally but then settled with just
> capitalizing the important ones to show them first.)

I have the same objections to only providing a customization option for
comparing.

Cheers,
Daniel

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-05 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-01 14:44 [PATCH 0/1] emacs: Pass a copy to notmuch-saved-search-sort-function Daniel Schoepe
2012-03-01 14:44 ` [PATCH] " Daniel Schoepe
2012-03-05 20:55   ` [PATCH v2] " Jani Nikula
2012-03-05 21:08     ` Daniel Schoepe [this message]
2012-03-05 21:09     ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2012-03-06  8:20       ` Jani Nikula
2012-03-01 20:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] " Daniel Schoepe
2012-03-01 20:24   ` [PATCH v2] " Daniel Schoepe
2012-03-03 21:36     ` Jani Nikula
2012-03-05  2:21     ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2012-03-05 11:17       ` Daniel Schoepe
2012-03-05 15:23         ` Tomi Ollila
2012-03-05 15:42         ` Dmitry Kurochkin

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