another attempt to add delete functionality in emacs

[Austin Clements]

Quoth Jani Nikula on Jan 11 at  7:16 am:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:12:16 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:01:32 -0400, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> > > Just thinking out loud here, but it does seem a bit unfortunate to me
> > > that it represents a pretty fundamental divergence between the CLI and
> > > the emacs interface. Mind you, I guess one could make the same argument
> > > about the libs versus the CLI. Lack of configuration information in the
> > > library (possibly among other reasons) makes this not too nice to
> > > support in the current library either.
> > 
> > I think a consensus has formed that this functionality (automatically
> > suppressing messages with certain tags from searches) is better left to
> > the CLI, rather than implementing it just in the emacs UI.
> > Unfortunately I'm not going to get to that any time soon.
> 
> I could have a go at it, but I can't make any promises about getting to
> that any time soon either. So what if emacs ui goes head first and does
> something that should be done in the CLI in a perfect world? If it's
> added properly, it can be taken out if/when this pops up in the CLI.

Too late.  See id:"1326258173-21163-1-git-send-email-amdragon at mit.edu"