[PATCH 0/5] Move pick into mainline

Mark Walters markwalters1009 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 26 02:26:49 PDT 2013


> One thing to think about: do we want to keep the name "pick"? If not
> then now is the last sensible time to change it. I don't have any
> better suggestion however.

There have been some suggestions on irc and I give some pros and cons

keep the name pick   
tree/treeview        
navigation view
forest
explorer (not serious I think)
zoom

I think I am happy with any of the first three. At some point later I
might add a flat (unthreaded) version of pick (eg just show the matching
messages in date order, like mutt's unthreaded views); I don't know if we
want a name which will be sensible for that.

My thoughts on the names: 

"pick" is not a very intuitive name, but it is
established and would do the unthreaded view too.

"tree" is very intuitive. It might be odd for the unthreaded view. 

"navigation" is intuitive and would be fine for the unthreaded view. It
does seem rather long for prefixes in lisp files. Perhaps use navigation
for the name for documentation but pick or tree as the list prefix?

The current series no longer applies to master (since Austin's series
touched the pick file). I thought it might be worth settling on a name
before reposting.

Best wishes

Mark


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