An Emacs Minor Mode to Mute Email Threads

An Emacs Minor Mode to Mute Email Threads

[kototama kototama]

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Hello everyone,

I have developed a small minor mode to mute email threads with notmuch.

http://dialectical-computing.de/blog/blog/2014/01/17/an-emacs-minor-mode-to-mute-email-threads/

https://github.com/kototama/notmuch-kill-mode

I hope it can be useful for some of you.


Best regards

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Re: An Emacs Minor Mode to Mute Email Threads

[David Bremner]

kototama kototama <kototamo@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have developed a small minor mode to mute email threads with notmuch.
>
> http://dialectical-computing.de/blog/blog/2014/01/17/an-emacs-minor-mode-to-mute-email-threads/
>
> https://github.com/kototama/notmuch-kill-mode
>
> I hope it can be useful for some of you.

Interesting. I think it is more efficient (and UI agnostic) to do this
on the CLI level. For example

% notmuch config set search.exclude_tags "spam;deleted;muted"

spam and deleted are not needed for this discussion.

then in a post-new hook (man notmuch-hooks) or other script

% notmuch tag +muted $(notmuch search --output=threads tag:muted)

David

Re: An Emacs Minor Mode to Mute Email Threads

[Amadeusz Żołnowski]

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kototama kototama <kototamo@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello everyone,

Hi,


> I have developed a small minor mode to mute email threads with notmuch.

FYI, it seems to be similar to "killed" option of afew[1].

[1] https://github.com/teythoon/afew


Regards,

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Amadeusz Żołnowski

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Re: An Emacs Minor Mode to Mute Email Threads

[David Bremner]

Amadeusz Żołnowski <aidecoe@aidecoe.name> writes:
>> I have developed a small minor mode to mute email threads with notmuch.
>
> FYI, it seems to be similar to "killed" option of afew[1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/teythoon/afew

As far as I can tell, neither afew nor alot uses
search.exclude_tags. This seems unfortunate to me, but I'm not using
either so I may miss the complete story.

d

Re: An Emacs Minor Mode to Mute Email Threads

[Amadeusz Żołnowski]

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David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Amadeusz Żołnowski <aidecoe@aidecoe.name> writes:
>>> I have developed a small minor mode to mute email threads with notmuch.
>>
>> FYI, it seems to be similar to "killed" option of afew[1].
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/teythoon/afew
>
> As far as I can tell, neither afew nor alot uses
> search.exclude_tags. This seems unfortunate to me, but I'm not using
> either so I may miss the complete story.

The question is: should exclude_tags be used in context of killed/mute?
This is just for skipping „inbox”, not for hiding them in all search
results - at least IMHO.

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Amadeusz Żołnowski

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Re: An Emacs Minor Mode to Mute Email Threads

[David Bremner]

Amadeusz Żołnowski <aidecoe@aidecoe.name> writes:

>
> The question is: should exclude_tags be used in context of killed/mute?
> This is just for skipping „inbox”, not for hiding them in all search
> results - at least IMHO.
>

For me I definitely want a muted thread to disappear in all searches. I
have at least three "inboxes" with sometimes overlapping content. But
yeah, if you don't want that, then you need some other approach than
exclude_tags. If I understand correctly, what you ask for also sounds
easily scriptable:

  % notmuch tag -inbox +muted -- $(notmuch search --output=threads tag:muted)

and of course that can be done in a post-new script or equivalent.

d

Re: An Emacs Minor Mode to Mute Email Threads

[kototama kototama]

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Thanks everyone for the feedback.

I wasn't aware it could be done on the command line, on the other hand I
really wanted to experiment and see how much notmuch was hackable with
Emacs Lisp.


I'll probably explore the command line option for a next version.

For me it's important that muted thread stay in the inbox, but get their
read tag removed, since I may want to read them later if a colleague points
to me the thread I ignored.


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:27 PM, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> Amadeusz Żołnowski <aidecoe@aidecoe.name> writes:
>
> >
> > The question is: should exclude_tags be used in context of killed/mute?
> > This is just for skipping „inbox”, not for hiding them in all search
> > results - at least IMHO.
> >
>
> For me I definitely want a muted thread to disappear in all searches. I
> have at least three "inboxes" with sometimes overlapping content. But
> yeah, if you don't want that, then you need some other approach than
> exclude_tags. If I understand correctly, what you ask for also sounds
> easily scriptable:
>
>   % notmuch tag -inbox +muted -- $(notmuch search --output=threads
> tag:muted)
>
> and of course that can be done in a post-new script or equivalent.
>
> d
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