[PATCH 0/3] Make notmuch-show-refresh-view retain state by default

[Austin Clements]

Quoth Tomi Ollila on Feb 19 at 11:43 am:
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:22:10 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > Based on the thread at id:"20120213152858.GO27039 at mit.edu" it seems
> > like people want show refresh to retain message state by default (I
> > certainly do), rather than reset it by default.  As a nice bonus, this
> > fixes a broken test.
> 
> Hmm
> 
> Every '=' keypress in a thread removes 'unread' tag from next unread 
> message :o

Oh dear.  It's slightly subtler than that, though.  Refreshing will
remove the unread tag from the first message matching the query.  (I
suspect you had tag:unread in your query?)  This is particularly
confusing for state-retaining refresh because that message might not
even be open.

> That is probably desirable feature when refreshing view without
> retaining state. Also, probably notmuch-show-refresh-view should
> be fixed not to mark next message unread when retaining state ?

I would argue that refresh should never have side-effects, so neither
case should mark anything read.  I'll send a v2.