On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:23:58 +0100, Matthieu Lemerre <racin at free.fr> wrote:
> The emacs interface to notmuch gets in my way in at least several
> manners:
Hi, Matthieu. Here are some of the things I've done to deal with
similar issues:
> - I often find myself hitting the spacebar too much, which ends up with
> some of my new messages being removed from all of their tags, which
> make them very difficult to find. I don't think the spacebar should
> remove the inbox tag at all. It should only change the unread tag.
I agree that the function currently bound to space bar is annoying. I
am actually in the middle of preparing a patch to fix this. I think
that space should just scroll through the open messages. I don't want
it to archive anything, or pop out of the currently viewed thread. I
think this function is too aggressive as is.
> - It does not provide a command for deleting mails. We were several
> people who provided patches to add a 'd' keybinding to support
> deletion. I provided a complex patch for that (that added "and not
> tag:deleted" to all requests", but I now think that just adding a
> "deleted" tag and removing the "inbox" tag would be sufficient).
I agree that some built-in support for handling "deleted" tags is called
for, but in the mean time it's very easy to make your own custom
functions to drop into your emacs config. I have the following:
(define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "d"
(lambda ()
"delete thread and advance"
(interactive)
(notmuch-search-add-tag "deleted")
(forward-line)))
(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "d"
(lambda ()
"delete current message and advance"
(interactive)
(notmuch-show-add-tag "deleted")
(notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop)))
(define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "u"
(lambda ()
"undelete thread"
(interactive)
(notmuch-search-remove-tag "deleted")))
(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "u"
(lambda ()
"undelete current message"
(interactive)
(notmuch-show-remove-tag "deleted")))
I do *not* think that adding the "deleted" tag should remove the inbox
tag. If you want to view your inbox without seeing the deleted
messages, then just use the search "tag:inbox and not tag:deleted".
> - Processing mails which do not have any automatically added tag is
> boring, because I need to press several keys to archive them: "+" to
> add a tag, and then "a". If I forget about +, then my mail is
> impossible to find.
Again, I achieve archiving with some simple custom functions:
(define-key notmuch-search-mode-map "a"
(lambda ()
"archive thread and advance"
(interactive)
(notmuch-search-remove-tag "inbox")
(notmuch-search-remove-tag "unread")
(forward-line)))
(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "a"
(lambda ()
"archive current message and advance"
(interactive)
(notmuch-show-remove-tag "inbox")
(notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop)))
(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "i"
(lambda ()
"add current message to inbox"
(interactive)
(notmuch-show-add-tag "inbox")))
jamie.
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