[PATCH 3/3] notmuch: Add support for listing the parent message

[Aneesh Kumar K. V]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:28:40 +0000, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:56:57 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at gmail.com>
> > 
> > When you have long thread, it would be nice to be able to
> > show the message to which the current message is a reply
> 
> The patch fires up a new search, destroying my context. Shouldn't the
> parent message be visible in the current thread and, if so, perhaps just
> searching in the current buffer for it (and jumping back there) be
> possible? (Maybe even with a key to pop back to the child easily.)
> 

It should actually stack up. That is, it fires up a new search but then a
'q' should bring back the old context. One of the thing i really
wanted to keep was the ability to go back to the old context with a key
binding which in this case is achieved by 'q'

-aneesh