On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:55:29 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote:
> I would love to have something along these lines, especially with
> quick navigation in both the top and bottom panes.  One idea I'd been
> toying with (but have no implementation for) was to integrate Daniel
> Schoepe's two-pane thread outlining with two-pane search results: in
> the top pane, show the usual thread search results but replace the
> currently open thread in the search results with its thread outline.
> Navigating in the top pane would naturally correspond to moving
> between messages in the current thread until you reached the end (or
> beginning) of the thread, at which point it would move to the next (or
> previous) thread.  This may or may not work in practice, but it's
> something to consider.

This is exactly the interface that I would like to see as well, Austin.
That would be very sweet.  I've started working on bits of this, but
haven't gotten very far.

jamie.