Re: Concern about new binding.

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Richard,

On Sun 07 Feb 2021 at 12:33AM -05, Richard Stallman wrote:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > You can do whatever you want.  For example, I have an elisp function to
>   > mute (== any new messages to the thread are marked as read immediately)
>   > all unread threads I haven't touched, but avoid muting threads where I
>   > read messages, so I'll see new messages that later come into those
>   > threads.  That's just one example; if you're willing to write the elisp
>   > you can probably make it happen.
>
> How would I direct notmuch to recognize all messages which were sent
> to bug-gnu-emacs but not emacs-devel, and propose a change in the
> Emacs user interface?  The second criterion seems to require
> humanlike understanding, not text processing.

notmuch has a system for committing tags on messages under a namespace
to a git repository.  So any contributor could tag a message as
"emacs:interface_change" and then your local notmuch would be configured
to include messages tagged with that in the same view as emacs-devel
messages.

-- 
Sean Whitton