Header and other questions
Xavier Maillard
xma at gnu.org
Mon May 16 14:53:55 PDT 2011
Hi,
On Mon, 16 May 2011 09:29:19 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:27:52 -0400, Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal at jhu.edu> wrote:
> > The decision, if I remember correctly, was that regions are so intuitive
> > for emacs users, and many people reported trying to tag by region
> > without thinking about it, that this approach would make sense for the
> > emacs interface. In other words, keep the emacs interface emacsy. I
> > think I still agree with that, since I feel like having both would be
> > confusing (what do you do when you select a marked-line in a region?)
> > and I like the one I tend toward intuitively. But I certainly see the
> > benefit of the other functionality as well.
>
> I should mention that in my experience it's usually not that hard to
> construct searches (or filters on searches) that pair down to just the
> messages you want to tag, in which case you can just tag the entire
> buffer.
That's true. I always end up doing that way. Though, many Gnus users are
used to mark and to massage all those messages at once, thus offering
this possibility could help.
/Xavier
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