[PATCH] v2 emacs: colorize buttonized 'id:' links depending on the target message's state

Mark Anderson MarkR.Anderson at amd.com
Fri Jan 20 11:15:13 PST 2012


On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:08:54 -0600, Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:43:06 -0500, Aaron Ecay <aaronecay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:57:33 +0100, Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
> > [...] Maybe you could change the regex that
> > matches id:’s to require a little more structure – an at-sign, perhaps.
> > Or even requiring more than (say) 5 non-space characters after the
> > message id would cut down sharply on the false positive rate.
> > 
> 
> Not sure how that would pan out.  It's fairly common behaviour to put
> one or more spaces after a inline Message-Id, so I don't think such a
> limitation would be warmly recepted.

I thought this was a suggestion to have more than 5 non-space characters
after the id:, not the full id:LongIdThingHere 

It sounded to me like an attempt to prevent extra false positives and
the confusing buttonizing and notmuch queries that go with them.

-Mark



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