Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot

[Sebastian Spaeth]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:40:40 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
> 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!
> 
> That was why I originally designed the space bar keybinding for reading
> through each message in turn, (and then it archives the thread only when you
> page past the last message).
> 
> The 'a' keybinding, (in turn), was designed for cases when you *know*
> you don't want to read the rest of the thread.

And that is what I use 'a' for, please don't take the single-key binding
away for this. I often glance at a thread, decide it's not interesting
for me and archive the whole thread including all unread messages.

It works perfectly for me. Adding another key for "only archive this
message" would be fine. Do people actually use the "x" keybinding? I
know I don't.

Sebastian
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