another attempt to add delete functionality in emacs

[David Edmondson]

On Sat,  7 Jan 2012 14:28:10 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> I try to address the concerns that have come up in previous attempts.
> In particular, I include a patch that creates a new customization
> variable, notmuch-search-exclude-deleted, that will exclude any
> messages with the "deleted" tag from searches.  This actually makes
> "deleted" messages appear effectively deleted, which is one of the
> things cworth wanted to see, and one of the reasons he kept pushing
> back on previous attempts at this functionality.

I honestly don't understand the reason for this. If someone wants to not
see messages that they have tagged as 'deleted', they add 'and not
tag:deleted' to the end of the search expression.

The messages aren't actually deleted because they have the 'deleted'
tag, so why would they not be shown?

If it's really intended that those messages not be shown then perhaps
the tag should be called 'not-shown' or something.

> Also, no tags other than "deleted" are modified.  All tags should be
> orthogonal, and should be handled so.

+1

The name 'deleted' for the tag should be a configuration option, as a
non-English speaker (for example) might want to use something else.
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