From: Jeremy Nickurak <not-much@trk.nickurak.ca>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Cc: notmuch mailing list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:09:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+eQo_1hMsTD4+6ifqgEQXW0_qYXGOdfkO6tBuGQKV+W7OSaKA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvyhb40x.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net>
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Adam
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net
> wrote:
> hi notmuch folks--
>
> i'd like to be able to forward several messages from a given thread (up
> to and including the whole thread) to someone else. I use
> notmuch-emacs.
>
> I don't think it's possible to do this at the moment;
> notmuch-show-forward-message just forwards the message where the point
> is located, even if the current region covers more than one message.
>
> I'd be happy to have a notmuch-show-forward-thread or
> notmuch-show-forward-all-expanded-messages or
> notmuch-show-forward-messages-from-region capability, but my elisp-fu is
> weak. I'd be happy to test if someone wanted to send me a patch though
> :)
>
> Background: one of the reasons that people often give for the terrible
> e-mail practice of top-posting-with-all-previous-messages-trailing is
> that they want to be able to send a message to someone else and have
> them be able to see the whole thread (never mind that these kind of
> reverse-chronological forwarded messages are difficult to read). I'd
> like to be able to respond to those claims with something like
> "reasonable MUAs should let you easily forward all messages in a thread
> if you want to catch someone up."
>
> I consider notmuch-emacs a reasonable MUA :)
>
> thanks everyone for notmuch,
>
> --dkg
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-23 16:33 forwarding multiple messages from notmuch emacs Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2013-04-24 18:09 ` Jeremy Nickurak [this message]
2013-04-24 18:12 ` Jeremy Nickurak
2013-04-25 12:29 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-04-10 14:26 ` David Edmondson
2019-06-01 3:38 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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