Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot
Jameson Graef Rollins
jrollins at finestructure.net
Wed Jun 29 13:37:21 PDT 2011
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42:01 +0100, Robin Green <greenrd at greenrd.org> wrote:
> It's really dangerous to use the 'a' key in notmuch-mode in an inbox
> thread which has multiple unread replies! Yes, the other unread replies
> will still be tagged unread, but the user might not immediately be aware
> of them. It would be really useful to have an optional warning ("More
> unread messages in this thread, are you sure?") for this situation!
I think that's a bit extreme, but I agree that the default behavior of
the emacs key bindings are not good, particularly in regards to
archiving messages.
I should probably just send in all of my emacs UI tweaks as patches, but
here are a couple of functions/bindings I've added to my .emacs to make
the message processing more sane. The main new function is
notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop, which will jump to the next
message in the thread, or pop out of the thread if you're on the last
message. I then use this in my tag processing functions, such as
archiving and deleting.
hth.
jamie.
(defun notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop ()
"Show the next message or pop to parent search."
(interactive)
(let (r)
(while (and (setq r (notmuch-show-goto-message-next))
(not (notmuch-show-message-visible-p))))
(if r
(progn
(notmuch-show-mark-read)
(notmuch-show-message-adjust))
(let ((parent-buffer notmuch-show-parent-buffer))
(if parent-buffer
(progn
(kill-this-buffer)
(switch-to-buffer parent-buffer)
(forward-line 1)))))))
(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 "d"
(lambda ()
"Delete current message and advance to next message."
(interactive)
(notmuch-show-add-tag "delete")
(notmuch-show-next-open-message-or-pop)))
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