[emacs] message list view

[Mark Walters]

Dear All

I think this could be very useful -- indeed I currently have been running some scruffy patches implementing this for the last couple of months.

What I have done is modify notmuch-show.c so that you can pass a --unthreaded option and it returns each message as if it were a thread on its own. Then notmuch-tree basically "just works" with this output.

The reason I like it was I found I was sometimes missing messages when multiple messages arrived in the same thread.

I haven't tried Bremner's suggestion of just not passing entire-thread; it would give a slightly odd ordering of the messages (all matching messages by thread, and in thread order) rather than just date order.

My patches are against a rather outdated version of notmuch but I can probably update and post relatively easily if people would like to try it.

Best wishes

Mark


On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Jeff Templon <templon at nikhef.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:
>
>> David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, 2018-12-11 at 11:20:55 -04, David Bremner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Discussion on #notmuch the other day led me to wonder how useful a
>>>> "message list" view would be. Essentially this would display a single
>>>> line summary for individual messages matching a query and allow
>>>> e.g. tagging operations or "opening" the message to get a more complete
>>>> view.
>
>
> I think it'd be useful.  I'll give you an example that always bugs me:
> if I look in "unread" (the standard startup screen search) and see some
> new message in a long thread of which I've deleted a bunch of messages,
> and I type 'd' to delete, it actually first undeletes (or to be precise,
> it toggles the already-present deleted tag on) all the already-deleted
> messages in the thread, then I have to hit 'd' again to delete all of
> them.
>
> If it were a message view instead of a thread view, I could just delete
> the dang message ;-)
>
> JT
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