[PATCH v5 00/12] emacs: more flexible and consistent tagging operations

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:20:31 -0400, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:07:27 +0100, Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:58:32 -0400, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> > > On Sun,  5 Feb 2012 11:13:41 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > How about if '*' applies to all messages (as it currently does),
> > but 'C-u *' only to open messages?  That would make more sense IMHO.
> > 
> > But, conforming to your original request, I've implemented the inverse.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for implementing that. I could live with either way. Do other
> people have opinions on this? My reasoning is if you descend into a
> thread from some search page, it seems likely that you want to operate
> on the messages matching the search.

I've pretty soon lost the original open/close status as I often navigate
through messages by opening/closing messages, so for me not operating
on all messages in thread is magic behaviour. In case I'd use C-u *
I first have to check through the full thread what are the actual
messages currently open (lots of screen scrolling :( )

So, I prefer '*' operating on all messages in a thread and C-u '*'
for all open messages in a thread.

> 
> d

Tomi