Header and other questions

Mueen Nawaz mueen at nawaz.org
Mon May 16 21:36:28 PDT 2011


Jameson Graef Rollins
<jrollins at finestructure.net> writes:

> 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.

I guess so. I still haven't really switched to notmuch for real mail so
I have little experience. I don't quite remember why I would have found
it handy when I wrote it, but it was while I was busy experimenting with
tagging my existing archive. 



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