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Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:57:36 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:50:10 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: rms@gnu.org, andrea.monaco@autistici.org, rpluim@gmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
>
> >> Yes, my point was to mention the two less mathematical words:
> >> broadening and narrowing.
> >
> > Narrowing is already being used, but it needs explanation, being a
> > general notion. I was looking for a single word or max 2 words,
> >
>
> This subtread is about rmail-summary-apply-filters-consecutively, right?
No, it's about the name of the variable and the first sentence of its
doc string. The rest is easy and not an issue.
> If non-nil, apply Rmail summary commands on the already existing
> filtering.
"Filtering" is the wrong word here, since we are talking about Rmail
summaries. Also, this is not about applying summary commands, this is
about generating the summary itself.
> >> That being said, I don't user Rmail but I don't think it obvious that
> >> filtering is always "intersection". Someone may filter their inbox to
> >> see mails from Alice, and add mails from Alice to the filtering.
> >
> > You could read about it in the manual. It doesn't make a lot of sense
> > to suggest terminology for features you are not familiar with.
> >
>
> Well, the fact that I don't use Rmail doesn't mean that I'm not familiar
> with that feature, which exists in other MUAs.
If you think about this as "filtering", then you have different
features in mind, not the ones discussed here.
- RE: [External] : Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, (continued)
- RE: [External] : Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Drew Adams, 2022/11/11
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Gregory Heytings, 2022/11/11
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/11
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Gregory Heytings, 2022/11/11
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Gregory Heytings, 2022/11/11
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/11
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/11
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Gregory Heytings, 2022/11/11
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Richard Stallman, 2022/11/11
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/12
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Gregory Heytings, 2022/11/12
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Andrea Monaco, 2022/11/12
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Gregory Heytings, 2022/11/12
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Richard Stallman, 2022/11/14
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Gregory Heytings, 2022/11/14
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Richard Stallman, 2022/11/14
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Gregory Heytings, 2022/11/15
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Richard Stallman, 2022/11/15
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Richard Stallman, 2022/11/15
- Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively, Andrea Monaco, 2022/11/24