Re: notmuch.el question: reading all messages in thread
Matt Armstrong writes: > Sometimes a notmuch query matches only a subset of messages in a thread. > When this happens only that subset of messages will be "open". Many > notmuch commands operate on the "open" messages only. For example: SPC, > 'n', 'p'. > > Often this is what I want. It works well when I'm looking for a > specific piece of information, or when I am interested in reading only > the unread messages in a long thread that I have seen previously. > > Often this is not what I want. I'm interested in seeing all messages > when I am looking for entire conversations where a topic is being > discussed. E.g. when I want to re-read a long forgotten thread, or one > that surfaced through specific search terms that appear only in a few of > the messages in the thread. In notmuch-show mode, M- opens all messages. > I looked for a way to easily re-query a tree view buffer such that all > messages in all threads shown are "open" but did not find it. Does this > exist? Not exactly an answer, but maybe this helps someone: In tree-mode I would suggest using "N" and "P" to ignore the open/closed status of a message. Or just move using the arrow keys / mouse and hit return on the message you want to read. If you really rarely want to the "*-matching-message" versions, then you could swap the bindings ___ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org
Re: notmuch.el question: reading all messages in thread
Matt Armstrong writes: [...] > I looked for a way to easily re-query a tree view buffer such that all > messages in all threads shown are "open" but did not find it. Does this > exist? I've wanted something like this too and will be happy if someone points out an existing way to do it. I'm not aware of one. > I suppose I'm looking for the opposite of `notmuch-tree-filter'. Maybe > `notmuch-tree-widen-to-thread' that produces a new notmuch tree widened > to the entire thread of the current message. In show buffers, I remap notmuch-tree-from-show-current-query to a custom function. Like the original variant, it displays the tree for a message's thread, but giving a prefix argument says to display all the messages as "open". I don't think that's exactly what you're asking for, but it still might be useful (at least for adapting to something that behaves as you want). --8<---cut here---start->8--- (defun km/notmuch-thread-id-from-message-id (message-id) (let ((threads (with-temp-buffer (call-process "notmuch" nil t nil "search" "--format=sexp" "--output=threads" message-id) (goto-char (point-min)) (read (current-buffer) (cl-case (length threads) (0 (user-error "No thread found for %S" message-id)) (1 (concat "thread:" (car threads))) (t (error "Got multiple threads for %S" message-id) ;;;###autoload (defun km/notmuch-tree-from-show-current-query (&optional ignore-context) (interactive "P") (let* ((mid (or (notmuch-show-get-message-id) (error "No message ID found"))) (tid (if (and notmuch-show-thread-id ;; notmuch's variant works with ;; notmuch-show-thread-id ... (string-prefix-p "thread:" notmuch-show-thread-id)) notmuch-show-thread-id ;; ... but there are cases where this is set to the ;; message ID, leading to the tree result that is ;; always narrowed to the message. Try harder to get ;; the actual thread ID. (km/notmuch-thread-id-from-message-id mid))) (notmuch-show-query-context (and (not ignore-context) notmuch-show-query-context))) (notmuch-tree tid notmuch-show-query-context mid))) --8<---cut here---end--->8--- ___ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org
notmuch.el question: reading all messages in thread
Sometimes a notmuch query matches only a subset of messages in a thread.
When this happens only that subset of messages will be "open". Many
notmuch commands operate on the "open" messages only. For example: SPC,
'n', 'p'.
Often this is what I want. It works well when I'm looking for a
specific piece of information, or when I am interested in reading only
the unread messages in a long thread that I have seen previously.
Often this is not what I want. I'm interested in seeing all messages
when I am looking for entire conversations where a topic is being
discussed. E.g. when I want to re-read a long forgotten thread, or one
that surfaced through specific search terms that appear only in a few of
the messages in the thread.
For example, I subscribe to some lists but don't read all messages in a
timely manner, if I ever read them at all. A search might surface
threads from those lists before I read them with my usual "tag:inbox
tag:somelist" query. I typically find these threads with a query
"tag:inbox some other search term".
In the second case I can achieve what I want with queries like:
thread:"{tag:inbox some other search term}"
But this is a burden to type and I often realize I want this after the
usual query has produced the search results, and then pressed 'Z' to get
a tree view, and realized that most of the messages are "closed."
I looked for a way to easily re-query a tree view buffer such that all
messages in all threads shown are "open" but did not find it. Does this
exist?
I suppose I'm looking for the opposite of `notmuch-tree-filter'. Maybe
`notmuch-tree-widen-to-thread' that produces a new notmuch tree widened
to the entire thread of the current message.
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