On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:19:26 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:

> I don't like this---but that's because I use 'x' precisely *because* it
> preserves these tags.

You can use kill-buffer directly (C-X k); adding a new special binding
for that command seems unnecessary to me.

> Otherwise, you might as well just remove inbox and unread as soon as the
> message is presented to the user. And that's a bug in a lot of other
> email programs that I'm unwilling to replicate.

My mail flow doesn't involve moving directly from one message to the
next; I go back to the index after reviewing each one; there isn't a way
to mark a buffer as read/archived and *not* view another message

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keith.packard@intel.com