[PATCH] emacs: Make the queries used in the all-tags section

[Austin Clements]

On May 25, 2011 7:21 PM, "Daniel Schoepe" <daniel.schoepe at googlemail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 May 2011 18:42:30 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu>
wrote:
> > 'Doh.  That's what I get for not reading the surrounding code.  I
> > misunderstood what your patch was going for and assumed it was what
> > *I* wanted notmuch to do, which is to show me useful counts (e.g.,
> > unread count), but not to change the underlying query.  ]:--8)
>
> I thought about that too, but figured it should be rather rare that
> someone wants only a portion of some messages _counted_, but all
> displayed when clicking on the search next to the count.

My use case of counting only unread messages (but still showing all of them,
like just about every other mail client out there) is an example of this.
But you're right that I can't think of any other examples (which is why I
suggested just baking this specific thing in earlier).

> I'm somewhat indifferent, since I rarely use those links
> directly, so any more opinions on this are very much appreciated.

Actually, here's a new thought that may help address your original problem
(assuming I understand it correctly now).  One of my design criteria for the
custom query parser (need to get back to those patches...) was to support
"implicit tag filters" such as hiding everything with tag:spam or tag:killed
(or tag:muted, etc) unless these tags are specifically requested by a
query.  That would apply equally to generated queries like the all tags
list, so you could filter out tag:killed messages centrally using a
mechanism like this, rather than having to work it in to every query
somehow.

> > So, to me, it seems like this turns the all tags section into another
> > saved searches section, just with a slight twist, and makes me wonder
> > if there's a better way to reconcile these.
>
> Well, it already was sort of a non-configurable saved searches section
> before, so I didn't really turn it into one. :)

True.

> Since the main difference between those sections is the clear visual
> distinction, it might be an option to provide the user with functions to
> easily declare new sections for the hello screen, where this sort of
> thing is configurable. (One possible use that comes to mind would be to
> group tags into different categories.)

That would be awesome.
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