* On 07 May 2016, Thomas Roessler wrote: > > I think we have much of the infrastructure it would take to code up > something for that in mutt. Main open challenges would be: > - Display the entire thread in the pager; > - figure out a way for the message actions in the pager to either > apply to the whole thread, or to the message we think the user's > currently focusing on; > - figure out how to cut the right amount of quoting, but that could > start with the current "skip quotes" code.
Some rough initial thoughts. I promise this is relevant. :) One thing I've often missed in mutt is an arbitrarily deep context stack. I'd like to be able to descend into a subfolder, or change to a completely different folder, and then climb back out again without sync and exit. In other worse, I want to stack the global Context rather than just a reference to the folder name. This meshes well with the sidebar, which I think we're on our way now to being able to merge and support. I like the conversation view too, but I think it would work best as a sort of virtual context, where you "enter" a thread/conversation and that becomes mutt's whole scope for subsequent actions, until you emerge again to the previous context. This expands options for viewing the conversation: you can sidebar or not, you can integrate into a single message view or not. This makes the integrated message view (Thomas's first bullet above) potentially applicable to a variety of scenarios, even letting you page through an entire folder as a sequence of messages. And it give us a scope for applying actions to all messages in the conversation. More later perhaps, I just wanted to get this reaction out before I lose track. -- David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
