[neomutt-devel] Tagging Emails
Pietro Cerutti
gahr at gahr.ch
Sat Feb 27 18:16:15 CET 2021
On Feb 27 2021, 14:42 UTC, Richard Russon <rich at flatcap.org> wrote:
>Background: I'm trying to improve how NeoMutt internally handles tagged
>sets of emails.
>
>If I tag ten emails, then perform an operation on them,
>in which order would you expect them to be worked on?
>
>For example, if you piped them to an external program
>
>- User's sort order
> Top to bottom in the order they'd appear in the index
> (including any threading)
>
>- Selection order
> The first email tagged would be processed first, and so on.
> Typically, the user would tag top-to-bottom in the index,
> so this could be the same as the sort order.
>
>- Unseen order -- dependent on other factors, e.g. the mailbox type
> - Maildir: Alphabetical
> - Imap: By UID (Unique ID)
> - Generally: By memory address (for speed)
>
>What do you think?
I'd rather not assume any ordering, as I think it is a complication we
can do without. Are there important use cases requiring us to maintain
any tagging order that I am not seeing?
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Pietro Cerutti
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